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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…

Timeline in reverse chronological order: 2 Dec 2015 - Uploaded teacher pages v0.      

Timeline in reverse chronological order: 30 Nov 2015 - First draft teacher and student pages uploaded.

Timeline in reverse chronological order: 30 Nov 2015 - latest version of data plots and teacher pages uploaded.

Spotlight on the University at Buffalo - SUNY QuarkNet Center: This center held its 9th annual QuarkNet summer workshop for teachers during August 2015, with six teachers in attendance. Professors Ia Iashvili and Avto Kharchilava organized the three-day workshop, beginning with a day of…

The Vanderbilt University QuarkNet program continues to loan any offour cosmic ray muon detectors (CRMDs) and to support the use of CRMDs in the classroom for many high school teachers in the Middle Tennessee region, including Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Dr. William Gabella is the mentor, with…

Spotlight on the University of Wisconsin-Madison QuarkNet Center: The small but very active QuarkNet center in Wisconsin is tightly bound with one really big detector and, potentially, many really small ones. In the first category is IceCube, the giant neutrino telescope that uses the ice mass…