
Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center
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Teachers working with mentors from Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Physics
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Teachers working with mentors from Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Physics
Virginia Tech QuarkNET Center - Annual Report 2022

As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, the Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center’s 2022 was also a bit of a revival!
Neutrino Data Workshop @ VT - June 2022

Short URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/vtqn2022
June 27, 2022
Connect with SUNY-Stony Brook for join QuarkNet Re-introduction
Virginia TEch QuarkNET Center - Report 2021

2021 was a bit of a revival for our Center at Virginia Tech! After missing our workshop in summer 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, we were thankfully able to meet again (though virtually) in early August just before the school year started for the local school systems.
Virginia Tech Summer 2021 Virtual Meeting

Short URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/vtqn2021.
The Virginia Tech QuarkNet center meets August 2-4. Here are some details...
Documents, Links, and Forms:
Virginia Tech QuarkNET center annual report

The year 2020 has its effect on the Virginia Tech center as it did for so many other groups and events. As the lead teachers and the center member teachers were expected to participate in online training at their respective school dis
Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center Report 2019

The year 2019 was another successful year for the Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center! Our annual summer workshop: “Catching Gravitational Waves” focused on QuarkNet’s LIGO eLab. Many of our center teachers teach not only physics, but
Virginia Tech QuarkNET Center - Report for Year 2017

The Virginia Tech QuarkNET group has currently 2 leading teachers, and three members that are also high school teachers. Rebecca Jaronski and Nick Merrill both organized the workshop this year, unfortunately Nick had a job offer in Georgia and has to leave. Thank you Nick for the great work and we will welcome you anytime back. Rob Culbertson, a new member, had step in as a leading teacher to help Rebecca with our center activities.
Data Portfolio Implementation Plans for VT Center Teachers

The Virginia Tech Center's first workshop concluded with a Cosmic Ray eLab poster presentation as well as an opportunity for the teachers to browse the Data Portfolio and start to plan how they could use these activities in their own classrooms.
All of the teachers see possibilities to use activities such as the Penny Mass Histogram Lab for teaching introductory science topics, such as scientific method.
Plans were discussed to use the ZBoson and TopQuark Mass activities, the Quark Workbench, and the Cosmic Ray eLab in physics classes sprinkled in various places in the curriculum of our physics teachers. One of the teachers teaches IB Physics, and is particularly excited to use some of these activities as long term projects.
The Data Portfolio activities can also be applied to chemistry, astronomy, biology and earth science classrooms. Our teachers in these fields are planning on implementing Rolling with Rutherford and modifying it to also simulate the gold foil experiment, using the Dice Probability Lab to model genetic probabilities, Muon Lifetime can be used in chemistry and earth science to model half-life and radioactive dating and decay, LIGO eLab and Cosmic Ray eLab can be used in astonomy as well as earth science!
Our planned next workshop will be at the end of July (27 and 28); the teachers will have time at this brief workshop to flesh out their lesson plans involving all these Data Portfolio activities! We look forward to hearing how these lessons work out in their classrooms.
Cosmic Ray Workshop at Virginia Tech, June 2017

*NEW* Link to pictures taken during our VT QuarkNet Workshop!
Agenda
Wednesday June 7: Introduction to QuarkNet and Cosmic Rays
Time (ET) | Activity | |
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09:00 |
Introductions and paperwork; registration |
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09:30 |
Introduction to VTl Particle Physics (Leo Piilonen) |
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10:00
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Introduction to QuarkNet website and Data Portfolio Level I Data Portfolio Actviities
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12:00 | lunch | |
13:00
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Work in groups on Cosmic Ray e-Lab
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15:00
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Informal Milestone Discussion with Lead Teachers
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Thursday 8 June: Detector Commissioning and Research
Time (ET) | Actvity | |
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09:00
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Level II Data Portfolio Actviity
Start research activities
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11:00 | Quantum Physics (Ed Barnes) | |
12:00 | lunch | |
13:00
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Group 1
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Group 2
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Friday 9 June: Research and Experiments
Time (ET) | Activity | |
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09:00 |
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09:30
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Group 1
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Group 2
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11:00 |
Underground physics and the search for double beta decay (Thomas O'Donnell) |
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12:00 | lunch | |
13:00
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Group 1
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Group 2
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Saturday 10 June: Pull it all together
Time (ET) | Activity | |
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09:00 | Discussion: What is QuarkNet? | |
09:30
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Finalize research
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11:30 | Seminar: The Elusive Neutrino (Camillo Mariani) | |
12:00 | lunch | |
13:00
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Implemention plans
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15:45 | End-of workshop survey | |
16:00 | End of Workshop |
Resources
- QuarkNet
- Handout: 2 kinds of QuarkNet login
- Cosmic Ray e-Lab
- Virginia Tech Physics
- KURF
- VT Mobile Neutrino Lab (symmetry article)
- CUORE event display
- How cosmic rays help us understand the universe (Ted)
- Cosmic ray mystery solved (Sixty Symbols)
- Higgs in cosmic rays (original paper)
- Particle Adventure
- Large Hadron rap
Contacts
- Camillo Mariani (VT QuarkNet mentor)
- Rebecca Jaronski (VT QuarkNet lead teacher)
- Nick Merrill (VT QuarkNet lead teacher)
- Ken Cecire (QuarkNet staff)
