IU QuarkNet meetings

Friday, February 16, 2001

Meeting Place-Swain Hall High Energy Physics conference Room

Meeting time 3:30

Attendance: Rick Van Kooten, Dave Blair, Matthew Hitchings, James Glen, Rob Spencer, Tim Receveur, John Taylor (phone), Robert Deirth (phone).

Agenda items in bold print:

1. Discuss the general time frame and scope of the summer program--i.e. one or two weeks, two sessions at different times or one just one session, Dates for the workshop and scope of the workshop activities.

The meeting began with a lengthy discussion of the summer workshop times and what could be accomplished. Rick cautioned against advertising that we will do things that we do not absolutely know we can accomplish, after the discussion we agreed on the following items:

The dates for the Workshop will be Monday, June 11 through Saturday, June 16. We will leave Bloomington for Fermilab, Friday June 15, and return Saturday June 16. One van will return to Bloomington, the second will go to Elkhart. The scope of the workshop will focus on testing and approving a final design for the Cosmic telescopes. Individual teachers and their students may opt to a second informal week to begin construction later in the summer. There will be no attempt to complete more that one working prototype of the telescopes.

2. Schedule the 5 days follow-up meetings, and set general objectives for each of the meetings. Bring your calendar!

We discussed the times when we can get together for the 5 paid QuarkNet days.

We agreed that two days would be Thursday, June 7 and Friday, June 8, just before the workshops begin.

We also agreed that we would meet for an entire day on Saturday, March 3 from 9:30 to 3:00 PM.

The other two days will be determined at a later date.

3. Establish the number of participants and discuss the student recruiting process.

We agreed that we would set the maximum number of participants to 25. We discussed what needed to be done to get University approval, as well as parent and school approval. We discussed how we would select students. We agreed that we would need to prepare an application that students would submit.

4. Define the desired computer capabilities (hardware and web access) so you can obtain computer support from your school.

There did not seem to be much of a difficulty with the computer, although teachers agreed to inquire at their buildings. The minimum computer was a fairly new Pentium 2 (PCI) computer with a 4-6 gig drive, and at least 64 meg RAM

The meeting adjourned at about 4:45 PM