QuarkNet

QuarkNet[1] is a long-term, research-based teacher professional development program[2] in the United States jointly funded by the National Science Foundation[3] and the US Department of Energy.

The summer Boot Camp is an annual national activity[6] allowing teachers to see detectors and colliders, as well as form research groups to process experimental data.

[citation needed] Based on a model at the University of Notre Dame, QuarkNet has offered a summer student research program since 2004.

[9] Typically, teams of four high school students supervised by one teacher spend six weeks involved in various physics research projects.

Examples of recent research titles include: Search and Identification of Comparing the Amount of Muon Events to Daily Weather Changes, Cosmic Ray Signals in Radar Echo, Fibers for Forward Calorimeter, The Effects of Impurities on Radio Signal Detection in Ice, Quartz Plate Calorimetry, Galactic Asymmetry of the Milky Way and RF Magnet Design, and Weak Lensing Mass Estimates of the Elliot Arc Cluster.