sPHENIX discussion of physics

[David Morrison <dave AT bnl.gov>]

Dear Chris,

I agree, great story about the GearHeadz.  What more can I say besides: 43 6f 
6e 67 72 61 74 75 6c 61 74 69 6f 6e 73 21

Cheers,
Dave

> On Jul 22, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Jamie Nagle <jamie.nagle AT colorado.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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."
> 

David Morrison  Brookhaven National Laboratory  phone: 631-344-5840
                                Physics Department, Bldg 510 C  email: 
dave AT bnl.gov
                                Upton, NY 11973-5000

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