Minnesota 2022 QuarkNet Annual Report

Minnesota Mentor: Greg Pawloski

Minnesota Lead Teachers: Jon Anderson & Karin Foss

This center held NOvA Masterclass pilot on April 23, 2022. Greg Pawloski worked with Minnesota teacher and Neutrino Fellow Mike Plucinski and QuarkNet staff to develop this masterclass exercise. This day provided an opportunity for high school students to experience the measurement and for Greg, Mike, and QuarkNet staff to learn from this experience in order to improve this new masterclass measurement for future use at teacher workshops and future masterclasses.
For a full agenda on this masterclass day, click on the link below:

2022 NOvA Masterclass (pilot) agenda: https://quarknet.org/content/2022-nova-masterclass-pilot-univ-minnesota

A summer workshop was held for teachers on June 13-16, 2022. The first two days focused on cosmic ray students, the third day on neutrinos, and the final day featured a Higgs@10 workshop to mark the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson. Cosmic Ray Fellow Nate Unterman led the cosmic ray portion of the workshop. Neutrino Fellow Mike Plucinski led the neutrino portion of the workshop with help from Greg Pawloski and QuarkNet staff member Shane Wood. 
For a full agenda of the 2022 teacher workshop, click on the link below:

2022 Teacher workshop agenda: https://quarknet.org/content/u-m-quarknet-workshop-2022