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8:30 – 9:00           Coffee, goodies, conversation 9:00 – 9:30           Vidyo with Ken Cecire for Masterclass Orientation 9:30 - 11:00       Josh talk on Virginia Space Grant…

Spotlight on Summer Workshop Opportunities at Centers: QuarkNet Central provides several two- to three-day workshops available to our centers. These are facilitated by staff or fellows, and focus on a variety of topics, including data analysis from ATLAS, CMS, LIGO or cosmic ray muon detectors…

Spotlight on e-Lab Posters: The poster section of all three QuarkNet e-Labs—Cosmic, CMS, and LIGO—is a great resource to find ideas for student investigations and for students to report on their own research. Often, a group will see an intriguing poster which leads them to either test its…

Spotlight on the Fermilab/University of Chicago Center: Summer 2016 was a busy one at the FNAL/UC center. Eight high school students worked with mentor scientists and two teachers on research covering a wide range of topics, including work with astrophysics detectors, the test beam facility,…

Spotlight on the Virginia Center: The Virginia Center, 10 teachers strong, runs through the populated corridor from Hampton Roads and Williamsburg, up through Richmond, and up into Northern Virginia. They are active in International Masterclasses and each year hold one at George Mason…

Guest speaker, Dennis E. Krause, gave a talk to the Virtual QuarkNet group during our December 2016 video conference on what many consider unexpected annual periodicities discovered in rates of beta decays.  Many of us had considred decay rates to be very constant, depending almost entirely on…

Spotlight on the QuarkNet Leadership Fellows: The leadership fellows, along with QuarkNet staff, serve as points of contact for QuarkNet centers. They assist centers in the planning and implementing teacher workshops and student research and help centers stay on top of the latest announcements…

Agenda and minutes for 2017 Leadership Fellows conference calls.

Links: QuarkNet Staff/Fellows assignments as of January 2017 QuarkNet summer workshop opportunties at centers. Files: Leadership fellows responsibilities, stipend, and travel info as of January 2017. Leadership fellows time sheet (.doc version) Leadership fellows time sheet (.pdf version)…