2025

The LHCb group at the University of Maryland launched a new Quarknet center  on Saturday, April 19, 2025 with a kickoff event. Recruitment started in March led by Ray Hodges, a high school teacher at Charles E Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, MD. He sent the attached flier to contacts in…

Our center had a great 2025! Our lead teacher, Rebecca Jaronski, has also stepped into the role as a Neutrino Fellow for QuarkNet. In February, she participated in the Virtual Fellows Camp, which focused on producing more data portfolio activities. Rebecca submitted an idea for neutrino data…

In 2024-2025 we continued outreach from the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics to regional high schools in central California and to students online. The QuarkNet Center programs were coordinated by faculty mentor Jason Nielsen and SCIPP Outreach Coordinator Laura Bakken, assisted by…

                        Report of QuarkNet Activities at UIC and CSU during 2024-2025 The QuarkNet Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chicago State provides mentoring, organization, and collaborative structure to…

The University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU) QuarkNet groups again joined forces for a lively summer QuarkNet Teacher Workshop.  This year’s workshop was hosted at OU from July 8-10. There was excess demand for the available travel support.  Fortunately, the OU…

The UH QuarkNet effort in 2025 centered on a Teacher's workshop held at UH Manoa  from Mar. 17-19, 2025.  Overall, five high school teachers participated.  The first two days of the workshop focused on neutrino physics, including an introduction to neutrino masses and neutrino…

Our 25th year  of Boston Center activities has been as busy as always. We considered the Principle of Least Time in optics (fall) and the Principle of Least Action in mechanics (spring) in our school-year meetings, held another student Particle Physics Masterclass in March, and celebrated the…

Our group met approximately monthly on video conference and for two full days in August (Zoom).  We held Sunday evening meetings as summarized below.  We had formal talks by teachers Gregory Alley (high granularity HCal) and Sam Wheeler (CERN visit) along with guest Andrew Olivier. …