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Three Hawaii high school physics teachers selected by national QuarkNet program
for participation at 2016 summer workshops in the US and Greece.
The Hawaii Quarknet mentor Veronica Bindi, Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is pleased to announce that three high school teachers from Hawaii have been nationally selected by the Quarknet Project to participate at the Fermilab Data Camp in Illinois, and the CERN ISE workshop in Greece this July.
Duc Ong, physics teacher at Kaiser High School is among the 24 teachers selected to participate at the Data Camp in Fermilab in Batavia, IL. Data Camp is designed to be an introductory workshop for both new and veteran teachers of physics and physical science to learn about particle physics and high energy physics. Different from a traditional teacher workshop the data camp gives emphasis on an authentic data analysis experience. The teachers will receive a real dataset from the Large Hadron Collider experiment operating at CERN in Switzerland. They will work in small groups to analyze the dataset and visually interpreting event display plots similar to those used by particle physicists at CERN.
More details on the workshop are at: https://quarknet.i2u2.org/page/data-camp-2016.
Ong said: "I've done already a couple of projects involving Cosmic Ray e-Lab and QuarkNet and I'd like to learn more so that I could incorporate this better in my curriculum. As a part of the IB philosophy of internation-mindedness, I find that a collaboration of physicists from all over the world is an excellent way for my students to see this in action. Also, my MS thesis was on data from BES with Dr. Fred Harris at UH Manoa about 9 years ago, so I have some background in particle physics."
Warren Huelsnitz and Peter Grach, High school physics teachers at Kamehameha Schools and part of the Quarknet Program in Hawaii, are among the twenty physics teachers from across the United States. They will join 30 European counterparts in July to attend the Inspiring Science Education (ISE) Summer Academy in Marathon, Greece, a six-day training and networking program aimed at boosting inquiry-based learning in high school classrooms (http://ise.ea.gr/). Participants will work with digital resources from European science and teaching organizations, including lesson repositories, remote-operated telescopes and a computer simulation program called augmented reality. The National Science Foundation funded the trip through the national QuarkNet Program, an education and outreach program that partners high school physics teachers with particle physicists at more than 50 centers across the country.
“This kind of international relationship-building is a big win for QuarkNet teachers and the hundreds of students they serve,” says Mitch Wayne, professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame and one of QuarkNet’s national principal investigators. “It opens access to new resources, new models of learning, and new colleagues and collaborators in the field.”
Peter Grach's interest goes beyond just what happens in his classroom. As a QuarkNet mentor teacher, College Board - AP physics consultant, Hawai'i Departement of Education mentor teacher, and student teacher mentor, he has been always interested in tools to help all physics teachers here in Hawaii be more engaging and ultimately more effective.
Warren Huelsnitz began a life in physics after retiring from the Navy in 2006. He earned his PhD in high energy physics at the University of Maryland, while a member of the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory Collaboration. That was followed up by a couple of years at Fermilab working on the MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment. After conducting research in neutrino physics and neutrino astrophysics for several years, Warren turned to teaching physics to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.
From left to right: Peter Grach, Duc Ong and Warren Huelsnitz.
Quarknet High School Activity - Maui 2016
Teacher with a group of student on Maui will study the global temperature
and find possible correlation with solar activity and cosmic rays.
This 2016 summer Quarknet High school activity, will take place on Maui Island.
A group of 4 students from Maui High School: Mary Chin, Princess Constantino, Laney Flanagan, Bryce Jackman with the help of their project Mentor J.D. Armstrong, and their teacher Keith Imada, will try to study if exists a connection between galactic cosmic ray, solar activity and global warming.
The abundance of Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) hitting our atmosphere is heavily affected by solar activity and its 11 year cycle. The group will study how the flux of cosmic rays at earth is affected by solar activity. Using the sun spot number, they will study how the solar activity changed during the last couple of centuries. They will study the global temperature and find if correlations with solar activity and cosmic rays exist. The project duration will be of 8 weeks for the teacher and 6 weeks for the students.
Students will participate at the Oahu Physics Department Open House and visit the UH physics dept labs. They will present their results and show a poster at the Maui AMS-02 workshop to be held Nov 11. Lastly they will submit their project for the 2016 Pacific Science Symposium.
- Friday, November 11th, 2016
Maui Cosmic Ray Workshop, UH Maui College - Room 111 in 'Ike L'ea Building
The Cosmic Ray Day is a free event for high school teachers and students.
Lectures on Cosmic Rays and Solar Activity will lead to activities using actual data from the AMS-02 and Quarknet activities, about Solar Energetic Particles.
These particles, accelerated by the Sun, are measured by Alpha Magnetic Spectometer (AMS-02), a particle detector on board the International Space Station (ISS).
Maui High School students and their teacher will also share results of their summer research on cosmic rays and climate change.
Bring your Laptop
You will have lunch with physicists, a great chance to talk with them about your curiosities! (lunch will be provided).
The Participants:
Students:
Laney Flanagan - Maui High School
Bryce Jackman - Maui High School
Phrincess Constantino - Maui High School
Mary Chin - Maui High School
Maya Hickman - Maui High School
Trevor Coronesci - Kihei High School
Erica Sawczynec - Kihei High School
Ethan McGregor - Kihei High School
Teachers:
Peter Grach - Kamehameha Kapalama
Warren Huelsnitz - Punahou School
Keith Imada - Maui High School
Bradley Mason - Lahainaluna High School
Duc Ong - Kaiser High School
Clyde Kobashigawa - Nui Valley Middle, retired
Tom Chun Kamehameha - Kea'au, retired
Victoria Zupanck - Lahainaluna High School
- Saturday, September 24th, 2016
Cosmic Ray Day, Punahou school - Honolulu
The Cosmic Ray Day is an event for high school teachers and student.
In the morning lectures and background informations on Cosmic Rays and Solar Activity.
You will have lunch with physicists, a great chance to talk with them about your curiosities! (lunch will be provided).
The afternoon will be more focused on AMS-02 and Quarknet activities, about Solar Energetic Particles. This particles, accelerated by the Sun, are measured by Alpha Magnetic Spectometer (AMS-02), a particle detector flying on board the International Space Station (ISS).
Bring your Laptop.
The Participants
Teachers:
Pamela Griffin
Warren Huelsnitz - Punahou
Johanna Adams - Punahou
Duc Ong - Kaiser High
Douglas Blackington
Students:
Esther Baek - Kaiser High
Kelli Chinen - Kaiser High
Vanessa M Kwong - Kaiser High
Jade K Lum - Kaiser High
Micah B Mashima - Kaiser High
Alyssa C Mencel - Kaiser High
Jack P Murphy - Kaiser High
Brandon M Ouansafi - Kaiser High
Nalu Clemons - Kaiser High
Korynn Grenert - Punahou
Nathalie Jones - Punahou
Easton Kays - Punahou
Noah Piper - Punahou
Phillip Tanton - Punahou
Mikaila Wahl - Punahou
Deborah Wen - Punahou
Jake Will - Punahou
Darren Zhou - Punahou
Ling-Yi Tsiang - Punahou
Elliot Shibata - Punahou
Kelly Masaki - St. Andrew's Priory
Katelyn Otsuka - St. Andrew's Priory
Johnathan Goodwin - Kalaheo High School
- Friday, June 24th, 2016
AMS-02 Team and Teachers Meeting - Honolulu
Meeting for the Outreach Team and Teachers, UH Manoa
- June, 5th 2016
HISTAR - Honolulu
AMS-02 activity with high school student & professors
- April, 16th 2016
Expanding Your Horizons Hawai'i - Honolulu
Free S.T.E.M. Workshops for 6th - 8th Grade Girls
- February 2016
Masterclass Hawai'i - Honolulu
The Participants:
Teachers
Tiffany Coke - Oahu, Punahou
Hanno Adams - Oahu, Punahou
Stefanie Lee - Oahu, Punahou
Julian Gifford - Oahu, Punahou
Warren Huelsnitz - Oahu, Kamehameha
Jason Kumar - Professor UH Manoa
Rui Pereira - Postdoc at UH Manoa
Amaresh Datta - Postdoc at UH Manoa
Students
Anela Johnson - Kamehamea
Keeanna Andres - Kamehamea
Sara Choy - Kamehameha
Milah Mizo - Kamehameha
Norea Bener - Kamehameha
Duke Mailolu - Kamehameha
Gregory Ny - Kamehameha
Mich Griffin - Kamehameha
Elijah Massman - Kamehameha
Grace Moody - Kamehameha
Kayla Palma - Kamehameha
Ally Manae - Kamehameha
Daniel Yu - Kamehameha
Vance Farrant - Kamehameha
Kaeo Kruse - Kamehameha
Micah Mun - Kamehameha
Kaela Iwai - Kamehameha
Kulani Simafranca - Kamehameha
Kahiwa Hoe - Kamehameha
Miki'ala Maio - Kamehameha
Cassidy Keola - Kamehameha
Baou Paleele - Kamehameha
Keolani Kahale - Kamehameha
Kalau Tanaka - Pesamino - Kamehameha
Chris Lovejoy - Punahou
Paul McLane - Punahou
Khalil Edwards - Punahou
Abby Agodong - Punahou
Ethan Lee - Punahou
Bobby Do - Punahou
Vincent Booher - Punahou
Krissty Sumida - Punahou
Phillip Tanton - Punahou
Cater Nakamoto - Punahou
Lia Fost - Punahou
Kaylyn Fukyji - Punahou
Matthew wong - Punahou
Tianali - Punahou
Kamaile Kandah - Punahou
Jill Nakagama - Punahou
Alex McComston - Punahou
Teri Brady - Punahou
Nicole Dileda - Punahou
Katia Benthole - Punahou
Zara Bagasol - Punahou
Chris Inouge - Punahou
Anna Deryc - Punahou
Nicole Forl - Punahou
Chloe Loughridge - Punahou
Sayoko Ford - Punahou
Tiler Nijang - Punahou
Nathalie Jones - Punahou
Martina Marantz - Punahou
Kaileia Moseley - Puaha
Maddie Miura - Puaha
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