University of Florida QuarkNet center
Submitted by kcecire
on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - 18:48
Annual Report for UF QuarkNet Center 2021
We were not able to conduct a workshop in 2021, unfortunately. The summer period for Alachua County teachers was significantly reduced because of the impact of COVID, and PI D.Acosta was not able to schedule a workshop before end of July with our lead teacher. This will be Acosta's last year with the Florida center, as he takes a new job at Rice University. But the Florida group is working on a new center PI.
University of Florida Annual Report 2020
The UF QuarkNet Center successfully managed to hold a vibrant and interactive virtual workshop over 3 half-days this summer, July 22-24, because of the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The center was rejuvenated with the recruitment of 5 new local teachers, who joined Ms. McHugh-Lowther who took the helm as lead teacher for our Center this year. The workshop was held using the Zoom video-conferencing platform.
University of Florida 2018 Annual Report
Neutrino Data Workshop Prototype at UF
Agenda
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Saturday, August 25, 2018 |
QuarkNet Annual Report 2017
The UF QuarkNet Center ran two workshops during the summer of 2017: one for 2 days in June and the second for 3 days in August. Between 8-10 local teachers participated, depending on the workshop. The first workshop, led by Ken Cecire of QuarkNet, reacquainted the teachers with the principles of particle physics. Prof.
CMS Coding and Analysis Workshop at the University of Florida, August 2017
Agenda
QuarkNET Workshop – August 1 – 3, 2017
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1 |
9:00 - 10:30 |
Greetings and Intros (NPB 1237) Review of June workshop (brief summary slides) The Big Picture of Science Education |
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10:30 - 10:40 |
Break |
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10:40 - 11:40 |
Quark Workbench /data-portfolio/activity/quark-workbench |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
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12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
Organizing the Periodic Table - seeing patterns (NPB 2165) |
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2:00 - 2:20 |
Discussion |
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2:20 - 2:40 |
Break |
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2:40 - 3:30 |
Coding with CMS data (SWAN instructions) |
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3:30 - 4:00 |
Reflection |
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5:00 |
Meet at Swamphead brewery for tour. Tour starts at 5:30, max 15 people. |
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2 |
9:00 - 10:00 |
Coding with 6-12 science (NPB 2165) |
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10:00 - 10:20 |
Discussion and reflection on coding activities and using it in the classroom |
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10:20 - 10:30 |
Break |
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10:30 - 11:45 |
Climate Change Data Discussion (Prof. Paul Avery) |
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11:45 - 12:00 |
Discussion: How is climate change addressed in the classroom? http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/02/19/467206769/why-science-teachers-are-struggling-with-climate-change |
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12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 - 2:30 |
Tour of Microkelvin Lab with Prof. Yasu Takano (as long as we’re talking about temperature) |
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2:30 - 2:40 |
Break |
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2:40 - 3:40 |
Data taking in Physics Dept. (NPB 1240) ● Tracking cosmic ray muons from the sky, and measuring their lifetime (only 2.2 microseconds!) ● Looking at the gamma ray spectrum from radioactive elements |
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3:40 - 4:00 |
Reflection |
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3 |
9:00 - 11:30 |
Tour of UF Nuclear Reactor. The tour will start at 9:30 at the Nuclear Engineering Building (168 Rhines Hall). |
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11:45 - 12:45 |
Lunch |
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12:45 - 2:30 |
Continuation of Data taking (NPB 1240) |
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Discussion and Reflection |
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3:00 - 5:00 |
Tour of Radiation Oncology at UF COM. The tour will start at 3:30. |
Resources
Link to previous June 2017 UF QuarkNET Workshop
Previous CODER workshop, August 2016
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Coding
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Jupyter and GitHub how-to docs
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If you’d like to install Jupyter on your own computer, here are instructions.
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