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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…

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…