Our center finished its fifth year of activity with a successful cosmic ray workshop at the Manhattan campus on August 5-7. The workshop featured visits by Bob Peterson and Beth Marchant from the QuarkNet "home office" and was attended by nine teachers. Three cosmic ray detectors were brought fully online, with e-Lab accounts established for all teachers in attendance. The cosmic ray detectors are now deployed at Pike Valley High School in north-central campus, Lyons high school in central Kansas, and Seaman High School in Topeka, Kansas.

Our fall workshop is scheduled for October 31-November 1 at the KSU campus. The workshop, coordinated by new lead teacher Gail Anne Aurand of Pike Valley High School, will include reports on cosmic ray detector operations and further activities with the Visual Quantum Mechanics (VQM) tool developed by Kansas State's internationally recognized physics education research group. Aurand replaces Laurie Cleavinger (McClouth High School), who has become a QuarkNet Fellow. The VQM activities follow on a series of successful regional satellite workshops held last spring using supplemental QuarkNet funding in Topeka (Seaman High School), Wichita (The Independent School), and Morrowville (North Central High school). Each workshop was run by one or two QuarkNet teachers and attracted 6-10 new teachers from outside the program.