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Spotlight on the Virtual QuarkNet Center: The Virtual QuarkNet Center is a unique center that has no geographic bounds, with teachers from Albany to Shanghai. They meet monthly online and get together once per year. This summer they were in Chicago, where lead teacher and LHC fellow Mike Wadenss…

Spotlight on the University of Kansas QuarkNet Center: Located in Lawrence, the center hosted both a research program for high school students and a teacher workshop this summer. Eight teachers participated a LIGO e-Lab workshop held on campus on June 6-7. During the workshop, teachers heard a talk…

Spotlight on the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez QuarkNet Center: Persistence pays off. A few years ago, the QuarkNet center at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) had two detectors that were not working very well. Hector Mendez reassessed the situation and worked…

The primary goal of the SMU Summer QuarkNet Astrophysics program is to utilize data from the ROTSE-1 and ROTSE-3 telescopes to search for and identify short period variable stars.  The variations may be intrinsic, as in pulsating stars, or extrinsic, as with eclipsing binary stars. …

University of Minnesota QuarkNet - NOvA Tour Workshop 3-4 August 2016   Wednesday, 3 August, 2016 Meet in PAN Room 120 9:00 Sign-in, QuarkNet Updates (Shane) 9:20 2016 Data Camp @ Fermilab (Jay D. and Michael P.) 9:40 2016 Inspiring Science Education @ Greece (Mike C.) 10:00 NOvA Talk &…

Spotlight on the Colorado State University QuarkNet Center: This QuarkNet center located in Fort Collins is now in its fifth year. Lead teachers Cherie Bornhorst and Adam Pearlstein along with mentor Bob Wilson organized the 2016 teacher workshop that was held on June 13-17. That week coincided…