Minnesota QuarkNet Teacher Workshop Agenda 2015

Tuesday, 16 June, 2015 - Physics & Nanotechnology Building (PAN), Room 120

9:00 Introductions, overview of day and summer

9:30 Classroom Activities (Found in Data Portfolio)

10:00 Speaker: Marco Peloso (Cosmology)

11:00 Set Criteria for J/Psi 

12:00 Lunch Talk: Mark Pepin (Dark Matter)

1:15 Analysis of J/Psi Data (done in pairs; 100 events/group)

2:00 View/Discuss Results of J/Psi Analysis 

2:30 Share-A-Thon

3:30 Future meetings this summer: CRMD? Elab? Location? Roles/Responsibilities?

4:00 Workshop concludes for day - as long as you can answer "yes" to:
1) Do you know your drupal account info?  Is your account info updated including CRMD #?
2) Do you have your CMS and/or CRMD e-Lab account info?  
3) Before end of workshop - complete "Teacher Implementation Survey" only.

 

Thursday, 13 August, 2015 - Irondale High School (Room 336), 2425 Long Lake Rd., New Brighton, MN 55112

9:00-4:00 (1 hour lunch) Cosmic Ray Detector Workshop

  1. Any detector to build?  (See resources for instructions)
  2. Plateu Detectors
  3. Decide on study...collect data
  4. Upload and Data Analysis
  5. Collect Data overnight

Friday, 14 August, 2015 - Irondale High School (Room 336), 2425 Long Lake Rd., New Brighton, MN 55112 

  1. Upload Data - Analyze in e-Lab
  2. Implementation discussion
  3. "Must Do" items - Do "Implementation Survey" and "Update QuarkNet Website"