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This summer teachers and students from the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center were joined by a dozen other teachers from the Virtual QuarkNet Center for our annual QuarkNet Week. Each of the more than 50 QuarkNet Centers in the US sponsors such a week; at ND we assembled a rich blend of activities for teachers. Above is a glimpse into a cosmic ray detector assembly and testing activity. The group also explored the CMS (see an image of a student presentation below) and LIGO e-Labs, and received an introduction into dynamic simulations and agent modeling from Dr. Bob Panoff (further below) of the National Computational Science Institute and the Shodor Education Foundation.
