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
Links :
Link to Shane Larson's Talk
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X-Ray Diffraction and DNA Lab Activity
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Hello Everyone, Here is the the lab activity that uses the diffraction pattern of a spring as an analogy to the famous x-ray diffraction of DNA. This lab is written by Rick Dower who adapted it…
Preconceptions in Mechanics by Camp and Clement
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https://books.google.com/books/about/Preconceptions_in_Mechanics.html?id=J7APAQAAMAAJ&source=kp_cover&hl=en
Danielle's LIGO Workspace
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Hello World! Questions from the powers that be on seismology: What are the types of seismic waves? How are they different from one another? s-waves or shear waves (transverse!!!) p-…
The Gents; Virtual meeting 2016, LIGO questions
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Why seismic waves are important to LIGO All kinds of things shake the ground and therefore affect the interferometers. These background vibrations have to be "subracted" just as background radiation…
Kathy and Debbie
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1. Compressional or P (for primary) Transverse or S (for secondary) Love Rayleigh P and S are called body waves because they travel or propagate throught the body of Earth. The latter two…
LIGO e-Lab Workshop for VQNet in Chicago
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August 11th-14th, 2016 Objectives Participating teachers will be able to use the LIGO e-Lab to…
New member invited
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Hi all, Great conference last Sunday night. Danielle, you are the bravest driver I know! I spoke with Kathy after our conference. She is doing well. Wadness, you were…
Cosmic Ray Workshop in St. Louis
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December 12, 2015 Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/j99vx5s. Pre-workshop Read ahead: Cosmic Extremes CRMD users download EQUIP and USB-UART driver onto laptop you will use in…
2015 Annual Report - virtual QuarkNet
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Virtual QuarkNet is a group of far flung, often isolated American high school science teachers from Boston and Atlanta, to the northwest coast of Washington, and Shanghai. Mentors Antonio…