Our collaboration with QuarkNet continued in 2023. In June, STEMarts Lab and Quarknet collaborated to organize a 4-day cosmic ray workshop for Albuquerque teachers. STEMarts Apprentice, Claire Legate, joined the workshop to participate and assist with STEAM day at the Q Station, to expose Albuquerque teachers to sci-art tools and strategies. We introduced teachers to augmented reality tools to explore in their classrooms. In October, Quarknet members, Shane Wood and Nat Unterman, set up a station for STEAM Night at the Balloon Museum as part of the Space Messengers installation.

QuarkNet is a nonprofit NSF-funded partnership between Fermilab and the University of Notre Dame that provides science teachers the means to further develop their skills and bring real research experience into classrooms around the United States.I have the honor of sitting on the QuarkNet board, and have been collaborating with QuarkNet fellow, Shane Wood, bringing particle physics to Northern New Mexico through the Projecting Particles project since 2016.