1. Info and Interesting Items Ken Cecire

2. Over 500 U.S. high school teachers Over 50 physicist mentors 4 staff National program International reach QuarkNet is supported by the U.S. Dept. of Energy and National Science Foundation as well as the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. The U.S. QuarkNet program

3. Student Investigations: Cosmic Ray e-Lab CMS e-Lab Classroom activities, e.g. – Find the Top Quark mass – Calculate the Z mass (LHC) CMS Masterclass Summer research Online activities with datasets all use real data The U.S. QuarkNet program Teacher Opportunities: CERN High School Teachers – 3 weeks at CERN – 5 teachers from U.S. – very competitive QuarkNet Boot Camp – 1 week at Fermilab – 10-20 QuarkNet teachers Cosmic Ray e-Lab workshop – 2-3 days – at your QuarkNet center more

4. Virginia QuarkNet Center

5. Virginia Mentors: Vassilis Vassilikopoulos, Hampton huphysics@hamptonu.edu Josh Erlich, William and Mary jxerli@wm.edu Phil Rubin, George Mason prubin@gmu.edu QuarkNet Staff: Tom Jordan Bob Peterson Kris Whelan Ken Cecire Tel: 574-631-3343 (O) Tel: 757-897-5296 (M) E-Mail: kcecire@nd.edukcecire@nd.edu Also see: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/staff.shtmlhttp://quarknet.fnal.gov/staff.shtml Virginia QuarkNet Center

6. Standard Model looking good Cool Event of the WeekEvent of the Week –result from LHCbLHCb –article in Ars Technicaarticle in Ars Technica Ask Jim about this…or save for Josh, Phil, Vassilis What’s new?

7. Masterclass will include Higgs candidates –ATLAS and CMS both! –Diphoton, 4 lepton, maybe even tau-tau Do we need to talk about Masterclass arrangements and orientations? What else? What’s new?

8. Higgs search investigation for students –Under development –Should be released soon CMS e-Lab –More developments coming –Should HU-W&M-GMU have a workshop? ATLAS Data Workshop –In beta What’s new?