The Virtual QuarkNet Center is a group of teachers, generally far from a geographic QuarkNet center but who work together using online tools to collaborate. Virtual QuarkNet Center teachers have monthly Sunday evening videoconferences during the school year and meet face-to-face once each summer. The teachers participate in cosmic ray studies using the cosmic ray e-Lab and in international masterclasses from their schools. The mentors, Antonio Delgado, a particle physicist at the University of Notre Dame, and Danielle McDermott, condensed matter physicist at Pacific Univerisity; emeritus mentor Dan Karmgard, another Notre Dame particle physicist; the lead teachers, Dave Trapp (dtrapp@mac.com) and Mike Wadness, are QuarkNet fellows from Washington and Massachusetts, respectively.
Virtual QuarkNet Center
VQC is a group of QuarkNet teachers who are separated geographically but collaborate online.
Contacts:
Danielle McDermott, Mentor
Dave Trapp, Lead Teacher
Mike Wadness, Lead Teacher
The Gents; Virtual meeting 2016, LIGO questions
Why seismic waves are important to LIGO All kinds of things shake the ground and therefore affect the interferometers. These background vibrations have to be "subracted" just as background radiation…
Kathy and Debbie
1. Compressional or P (for primary) Transverse or S (for secondary) Love Rayleigh P and S are called body waves because they travel or propagate throught the body of Earth. The latter two are…
LIGO e-Lab Workshop for VQNet in Chicago
August 11th-14th, 2016 Objectives Participating teachers will be able to use the LIGO e-Lab to: Plot and interpret data recorded by…
New member invited
Hi all, Great conference last Sunday night. Danielle, you are the bravest driver I know! I spoke with Kathy after our conference. She is doing well. Wadness, you were on the road, so I couldn't…
Cosmic Ray Workshop in St. Louis
December 12, 2015 Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/j99vx5s. Pre-workshop Read ahead: Cosmic Extremes CRMD users download EQUIP and USB-UART driver onto laptop you will use in the…
2015 Annual Report - virtual QuarkNet
Virtual QuarkNet is a group of far flung, often isolated American high school science teachers from Boston and Atlanta, to the northwest coast of Washington, and Shanghai. Mentors Antonio Delgado…
Video conference directions
The virtual QuarkNet group generally schedules our monthly virtual QuarkNet video conference on a Sunday mid-month at 8PM eastern. They particular Sunday depends on anticipated schedule conflicts of…
2014 Annual Report - Virtual Center
Virtual QuarkNet is a group of far flung, often isolated American high school science teachers from Boston and Atlanta, to the northwest coast of Washington, Taiwan and Shanghai. Mentors Antonio…
2014 Summer virtual Workshop
july workshop at Spearfish SD tuesday July 22 introductions (at BHSU) CETUP talk: neutrino interactions with nuclei: Ulrich Mosel at Lead middle school cosmic ray research: James Stith (At BHSU…
ILC Draft Mini Masterclass
QuarkNet Link /content/ilc-dreft-mini-masterclass Lesson Link-includes spreadsheet http://wadness.wikispaces.com/Japan+and+the+ILC