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At the Needs Assessment & Developers Workshop for Grid Techniques in Introductory Physics Classroom Projects, held at Florida International University on January 28 and 29, educators, researchers, and scientists met to discuss how students of introductory physics might tap into real physics data sets around the world and collaborate on its analysis over the Internet.

A select group of 24 high school science teachers from across the country will share the singular opportunity to bring the high-energy physics frontier back to their classrooms through the QuarkNet teacher training workshop July 1-6 at the Snowmass Conference Center, during the three-week conference “Snowmass 2001: A Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics.”

Soccer moms, take heart! Beginning on Saturday, December 6, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will offer an alternative to freezing on the sidelines: Bring the kids to Fermilab’s Lederman Science Center for a day of hands-on science. It’s entertaining, it’s educational, and it’s warm!

The Association of Science and Technology Centers in Washington, D.C. has named William F. Fracarro, a fourth-grade teacher at Clifford A. Johnson School in Wheaton/Warrenville District 200, to the 1996 ASTC Honor Roll of Teachers.

Batavia, IL-Nationally known author Janice Van Cleave will be the featured speaker at the Second Annual Science Resource Fair, to be held at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on March 15 and 16, 1996. The popular author of science activity books will give a hands-on keynote speech, “Making Classroom Science Awesome,” in Fermilab’s Ramsey Auditorium in the laboratory’s Wilson Hall at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 15. The cost of the lecture is included in the registration…