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Spotlight on the University of California, Riverside QuarkNet Center: This group is and should be known for its great participation in International Masterclasses. Not only were they an early adopter—Mark Bonnard traveled to Portugal to cement a relationship with institutes there—but they are…

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Spotlight on the Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet Center: The JHU center had an active year in 2015, including a teacher workshop that took place from July 20-24, student research that ran from June 30 - August 9, and involvement in the 2015 CMS Masterclass. During the workshop, teachers…

Spotlight on International Masterclasses 2016: They are amazing—the chance for your students to become "particle physicists for a day"—and they are coming. International Masterclass videoconferences will run February 11 to March 23 at CERN and February 25 to March 19 at Fermilab. You can find…

Spotlight on the University of Minnesota Center: The University of Minnesota center has held summer workshops since 2003. Currently, there are 12 active teachers who work with Dan Cronin-Hennessy, lead teacher Jon Anderson and QN staff teacher Shane Wood. In Spring 2015, the center held a…

Spotlight on Bob Peterson: Who can explain cosmic ray performance studies with a nautical metaphor, come up with a quote about Stan Musial, and calm a nervous e-Lab user, all while tying a knot youi've never heard of and putting on an mp3 of maritime folk songs? Well, that's our colleague and…

Spotlight on the Florida State University Center: The FSU center dates back to QuarkNet's beginnings in 1999. Horst Wahl is the mentor, and there are about 20 active members, primarily from the Tallahassee area. The 2015 summer workshop was held July 6-10 and included a three-day cosmic ray…

Spotlight on the Virtual QuarkNet Center: The Virtual Center is a home for teachers who live far from a geographic QuarkNet center. They meet monthly by videoconference and gather for a few days each summer. They went to New Mexico in August 2015 to visit physicists at Los Alamos and take…

Present: Kevin Martz, Matthew Jacobs, Dan Walsh, Joel Klammer, Ken Cecire Meeting Indico page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/465380/    Items discussed: Activities used to meet Topic 7.3 Quark Puzzle (QN) Z Mass Calc (QN) Particle combinations puzzle Ideas/needs…