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Summer 2000 Workshop on Particle Physics for High School Physics Teachers, July 10-21, 2000.
Meeting Summaries of 2000-2001 QuarkNet Teacher Meetings.
Classroom Projects in Particle Physics

High Energy Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy
State University of New York at Stony Brook

QuarkNet brings high school students and teachers to the frontier of 21st century research that seeks to resolve some of the mysteries about the structure of matter and the fundamental forces of nature. For more details on the QuarkNet program see the QuarkNet homepage at Fermilab.

QuarkNet will support centers at 60 universities and laboratories (40 at present time) that are participants in the collider experiments at Fermilab in Illinois and at CERN in Switzerland.

Physicists mentor and collaborate with high school teachers. Through these collaborations:

• Students learn fundamental physics as they analyze real online data and participate in inquiry-oriented investigations.
• Teachers join research teams with physicists at a local university or laboratory.

In July 10-22, 2000 a paid two-week Summer Workshop on Particle Physics for High School physics teachers has been organized at Stony Brook, with five follow-up meetings spread throughout the 2000-2001 school year. At the workshop presentations were given on particle physics and detectors, and teachers developed classroom materials and measurement equipment for their laboratory. 
A Summer 2001 Workshop is in preparation. 

The five follow-up meetings will be used for feedback on the use of classroom materials and demonstrations, and for keeping everyone up-to-date with the most recent developments in particle physics.