sPHENIX discussion of physics

[Jamie Nagle <jamie.nagle AT colorado.edu>]

Hello All,

Great article about our own Chris Pinkenburg (and there is another Pinkenburg in the article too).

"Pinkenburg and the GearHeadz"

https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=26484

Congratulations Chris!

Jamie

"Helping lead them to this success is their proud coach, Chris Pinkenburg, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Pinkenburg formed a LEGO robotics team six years ago after attending an educational symposium at Brookhaven on the FIRST Robotics Competition. The team then underwent a few name changes before settling on the name “GearHeadz” three years ago.

As a scientist, Pinkenburg knows firsthand the value of excitement in sparking an interest in science and engineering. He spends his workdays at Brookhaven coordinating offline computing for the world-class PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and working on the simulation effort for the sPHENIX upgrade.

When he heard at the symposium about the FIRST LEGO League for kids aged 9 to 14, he knew it would be the perfect place to nurture students’ passions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The initial team consisted of four interested kids from his eldest son’s fifth grade class, while Pinkenburg also embarked on a parallel effort to get the program started at the local middle school."

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