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, Marc Osherson, a particle physicist at the University of Notre Dame, and Danielle McDermott, condensed matter physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory; the lead teachers, Megan Alvord is a QuarkNet Coding Fellow from North Caroline and Mike Wadness is a QuarkNet fellow from Massachusetts.
Virtual QuarkNet Center
VQC is a group of QuarkNet teachers who are separated geographically but collaborate online.
Contacts:
- Marc Osherson, Mentor
- Danielle McDermott, Mentor
- Megan Alvord, Lead Teacher
- Mike Wadness, Lead Teacher
2017-2018 virtual QuarkNet Annual Report
Virtual QuarkNet is a group of teachers who are generally some distance from a research facility. As a consequence, the group meets monthly by video conference (through CERN Vidyo) during the…
Joel's Test
LIGO Tour
The LIGO center provided an interesting day.
Marteen's Document Test
Another great read is Artemis by Andy Weir, author of The Martian
Great Reads
The Three Body Problem by Qui
Virtual QNet Summer Workshop 2018: Using Gravitational Wave Data
Objectives Participating Teachers Will: Be able to use the LIGO e-lab to identify levels of seismic background noise Describe the changes that occur in gravitational waves emitted from a compact…
talk on Condensed Matter
Danielle McDermott's talk on Condense Matter to virtual QuarkNet Group Click the files below to see Powerpoint (which may take some time to download before viewing) or the smaller PDF of the slides…
Report on 2017 Summer Workshop
Virtual QuarkNet Center Visit: Brookhaven National Laboratory: Physics Department Host: Helio Takai Meeting Room 2-84 ,Physics Building,: August…
VQN Summer Workshop 2017: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Objectives Participating teachers will: Be able to complete Masterclass prep activities on their own. Be able to implement Masterclass prep activities in their classroom. Be able to…
Introduction the Dark Matter
Click below to view Antonio's pdf on Dark Matter.