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QuarkNet offers a variety of summer workshops for our centers. These are facilitated by staff or fellows, who come to the center to work with teachers. The table below summarizes the workshops currently available. Workshop Fellows group Duration Brief Description Sample Agenda…

Spotlight on QuarkNet, Notre Dame, and Chile: Recently, Pat Mooney, Ken Cecire and Chris Kolda, Physics Department Chair, retuned from a visit to Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile. While in Chile, they built cosmic ray detectors and had masterclass-based workshops with a strong…

Spotlight on the University of Cincinnati QuarkNet Center: Cincinnati had a very active 2015. Students and teachers spent much time working with cosmic ray detectors by performing studies at their school, participating in International Muon Week, and by bringing a set of detectors to Fermilab for…

Spotlight on the Vanderbilt University QuarkNet Center: Vanderbilt continues to be an active QuarkNet center led by mentor Dr. William Gabella, with the support of emeritus mentor Dr. Med Webster and lead teacher Terry King. In 2015, the center offered a weeklong summer workshop with nine…

Spotlight on the Iowa QuarkNet Center: The QuarkNet center at the University of Iowa has an intensive workshop every other summer. This was not one of those years, but they did some great work all the same in summer research. One of the highlights was building models of CMS with a 3D printer.…

  LIGO facility in Hanford, Washington. The gravitiational wave discovery signals at Hanford and Livingston.   There is still excitement over the discovery of gravitiational waves by LIGO, announced on February 11, 2016. This page has some resources for QuarkNet teachers…

Spotlight on the Colorado State University QuarkNet Center: In its fourth year, the CSU center is relatively new. Dr. Bob Wilson, Cherie Bornhorst and about six local teachers have learned about cosmic rays, building and deploying cosmic ray detectors, worked with LHC data, and involved students…

Spotlight on the LIGO e-Lab: You may be a user of the Cosmic Ray e-Lab or of the CMS e-Lab, but have you tried the LIGO e-Lab? Gravitational waves can make only the most miniscule vibrations in the LIGO interferometer arms at Hanford and at Livingston. Thus isolating out background…

Spotlight on the Rice University/University of Houston QuarkNet Center: This center had a very busy 2015 with "Saturday Physics" events, student research internships, and a weeklong teacher workshop. The six "Saturday Physics" events took place during the school year, featuring talks by professors…