2020 FSU Annual Report

Leads Ted Kolberg, Jasun Burdick and Jacob Breman worked with QuarkNet staff to organize a virtual workshop on July 22–24 that primarily focused on remote student activities. The workshop began with modified QuarkNet classics like Rolling with Rutherford using an online simulation and The Case of the Missing Neutrino using protractors accessible online or with a smartphone, along with shared online spreadsheets. Ted Kolberg gave a talk on electromagnetic waves and shared some wave optics activities he used with students that access online simulations. Teachers also shared activities, strategies, and tools that they found helpful during remote learning. On the final day of the workshop, they held a joint session with the University of Florida QuarkNet Center on machine learning and artificial intelligence, led by Darin Acosta and Alex Roman. At the end of each day, an FSU-UF joint social hour on Zoom allowed QuarkNetters from both centers to get acquainted and collaborate. 

Mentor: Ted Kolberg

Lead Teachers: Jacob Breman and Jasun Burdick