sPHENIX discussion of physics

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Dear All,

Thank you for all those encouraging mails. It's been an interesting and rewarding experience and I can only recommend to try this. It's amazing what kids are capable of. And it does have an impact - one of my high school kids from another team I mentored went into mechanical engineering because of this. Who knows maybe we welcome one of them as  a collaborator a few years down the road in time for first beam for sPHENIX or at the EIC.

Thank you again

Chris

P.S. If you have a couple of interested kids and consider starting such a team, let me know and I'll get you going.

On 7/22/2016 10:40 AM, Jamie Nagle 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."

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