QuarkNet Data Camp is a one-week workshop designed for high school teachers to learn about the basics of the Standard Model and how the LHC works (especially the CMS detector). During the early part of the week, they use real CMS collision data to reconstruct the masses of known particles such as the W,Z and J/psi; later in the week, they develop plans and a framework for transferring what they've learned to their own classrooms. They also get to tour various experiments and facilities at Fermilab, and listen to presentations from experimentalists who work there.
The audience will consist mainly of high school physics teachers, living all across the USA, about 15% of them teaching or living in Illinois, the state that Fermilab is in. There will be approximately 30 teachers, and possibly a few high school students who are at the lab this summer doing research.
