2016
Queensborough Community College QuarkNet Center 2016 Annual Report
In 2016 one high school teacher and five community college students worked with the QuarkNet detector and on building a Queensborough Community College (QCC) cosmic ray muon detector prototype. The prototype was built from surplus scintillator obtained from Fermilab CDF, surplus…
University of Minnesota - 2016 Annual Report
This year (2016), the University of Minnesota held its 13th annual QuarkNet teacher workshops. Mentors Daniel Cronin-Hennessy, Satish Desai and Ken Heller worked with lead teachers Jon Anderson and Shane Wood to organize this year's content. Minnesota HEP administrator Andrea Stronghart organized…
Quarknet at U. C. Riverside, Annual Report for 2016
P.I.s: Robert Clare, Owen Long CMS e-lab Workshop: We held a 2-day QuarkNet CMS e-lab Workshop at UCR on July 14 and 15, 2016 with two teachers participating as well as a QuarkNet Leadership Fellow (Robert Baker). Shane Wood from QuarkNet used the opportunity to try out a new version of the CMS e-…