2003

• Cherie Lehman and Gregg Hoover initiated the Purdue Center
• Attended training sessions at FermiLab to become Lead Teachers
• Planned for group activities for Summer 2004

2004

• Marla Glover, Cheryl McLean, and Tracy Hood joined as Associate Teachers
• Talks by Purdue professors about particle physics
• Visited FermiLab
• Talks: (MS PowerPoint)
  • Professor Matthew Jones - Physics, Purdue University - "Particle Identification in High Energy Physics Experiments: Time-of-Flight techniques"
    

2005

• Evie Ames joined the Purdue QuarkNet Center
• Made plans for the cosmic ray detector

2006

• Todd Millar, Jon Johnson, Rob Spencer, and Bruce Ryan, joined the Purdue QuarkNet Center
• Returned to FermiLab for a day
• During the school year, Physics 290 students completed the construction of the cosmic ray detector and programmed the software to run the circuit board.  They also took the detector to two local classrooms so that students could take data.
• Talks: (MS PowerPoint)
  • Professor Daniela Bortoletto - Physics, Purdue University - "The energy frontier of particle physics: the quarks and the cosmos"
  • Professor Matthew Jones - Physics, Purdue University - "Particle Acceleration for High Energy Physics Experiments"
    

2007

• Matt Carlson and Joe Heidenreich joined the Purdue QuarkNet Center
• Summer Participants worked to become familiar with the cosmic ray detector constructed in 2006
• Wrote labs for use in the classroom
• Built the second cosmic ray detector
• Talks: (MS PowerPoint)
  • Professor Daniela Bortoletto - Physics, Purdue University - "QuarkNet Intro"
  • Professor David H. Miller - Physics, Purdue University - " Cosmic Rays Pt II"
  • Professor John P. Finley - Physics, Purdue University - "Veritas: Focusing the Extremes of Nature"
  • Professor Matthew Jones - Physics, Purdue University - "Detecting Cosmic Rays or Interactions of Fundamental Particles with Matter"

2008

• LeRoy Castle joined the Purdue QuarkNet Center
• Bob Peterson from QuarkNet (Fermilab) provided 3 days of e-lab training
• Teachers assembled 3rd cosmic ray detector
• Teachers developed plans for using the cosmic ray detectors during the summer and in the 2008-09 academic year
• Talks:
  • Welcome
  • Introduction to cosmic ray physics
  • Statistics
  • Professor Daniela Bortoletto - Physics, Purdue University - Postcards from the Terra Scale
  • How to plateau the counters (from Bob)