FIT 2016 Summer Workshop
Quarknet/FIT 2016 Summer Workshop
Welcome to the Quarknet/FIT 2016 summer workshop May 31 - June 6.
Pre-Workshop Info
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The workshop will be held on the 4th Floor, Olin Physical Science Center (OPS), F.I.T. main campus (map)
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Parking: There are visitor spaces on the first floor of the parking garage. Once you get a parking permit from Mike you can park anywhere on campus.
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Lunch is available in the FIT dining hall.
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Register for a Cosmic Ray eLab account
Lead Teachers
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Mike O'Donnell, PBMHS
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Joe Laub, MHS
Participants and Visitors
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Mark Adams, Quarknet staff (FNAL)
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Chris Cantrell (MHS)
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Robert Frankowiak, Quarknet Cosmic Fellow
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Adam LaMee, Quarknet Teaching & Learning Fellow (UCF)
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Jake Lenhart (Space Coast Jr/Sr HS)
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Ram Maharaj (Bayside HS)
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David Proctor (MHS)
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Randy Wouters, (MHS)
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High school student researchers Angela, Coady, Devon, Logan, Muyang, and Ryan.
Links:
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Quarknet site (and Data Portfolio)
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CRMD resources page: tutorials, instructions, and software downloads
Agenda
Tues:
(8-9) Welcome and orientation, parking permits, W-9s, coffee & donuts (Mike and Joe)
(9-10) Connecting to BCS laptops and FIT wifi, cosmic eLab (Mike)
(10-11) Talk: Intro to Cosmic Rays (Mike)
(11-12) Assemble detectors
(12-1) Lunch
(1-2) Detector time
(2-3) Talk: Nuclear physics pt. 1 (George Rybicki, FIT Physics)
(3-4) Detector time
Wed:
(8-12) Detector time (Robert and Mark)
(12-1) lunch
(1-2) Quarknet site accounts and FIT page (Adam); Rutherford PhET activity and worksheet pdf attached below (Mike)
(2-3) Talk: Nuclear physics pt. 2 (George Rybicki, FIT Physics)
(3-4) Detector time
Thurs:
(8-12) Detector time
(12-1) lunch
(1-3) Detector time, make posters
(3-4) Upload and re-start collection; daily survey, and plans for Friday
Fri:
(8-9) Recap and begin data collection
(9-10) Rutherford PhET and Mike’s Rutherford activity worksheet (Mike)
(10-10:30) Sunspot viewing and observatory tour (Dr. Veronique Petit, FIT Physics)
(10:30-12) Classroom activities:
Data Portfolio activity: Rolling with Rutherford variation (Adam)
(12-1) lunch
(1-2) FIT Library (map): tour of the Digital Scholarship Lab (Martin Gallagher, FIT Library)
(2-3:30) Data Portfolio activity: Top Quark variation; CERN LHC video (1.18 m) (Adam)
(3:30-4) Upload and re-start collection; daily survey, and plans for Monday
Mon:
(8-9) Meet at FIT Bookstore (map); recap from last week; Data Portfolio activity: Quark Workbench (Adam); walk back to OPS
(9-11:45) recap learning goals from last week’s activities; HEP videos
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choice of Arduino activities with programming or DC circuits, or laser diffraction (Adam)
(11:45-12) Why should all students take Physics in high school? Here are some reasons.
(12-1) lunch
(1-2) Design an implementation plan; further investigation of the week’s activities
(2-3) Tour of HEP lab, CMS remote operations room, and clean room (Marcus Hohlman, FIT)
(3-4) In-service forms; Experimental Science course description; daily survey; Quarknet workshop satisfaction survey