Left to Right: Teacher Gillian Winters, Mr. 1, teacher Rich Gearns, Megan Russ, teacher Mr. 2, Glen Meyerowitz, Mr. 3, Akshay Gupta, and John Dodado. Mentor Helio Takai is hiding behind the camera.

PJ Party students from Brookhaven Lab give a thumbs up to physics

The Pajama Party at Fermilab in September 2008 attracted QuarkNet students and teachers from near and far, including this contingent from the Brookhaven/Stony Brook Center. The students were motivated and capable and were inspired to go on to great things.

Since the PJ Party, in which students celebrated the first circulating beams in the LHC along with the world particle physics community, most students have moved on to university. John Dodado has been accepted to Columbia University as a physics major, and Glen Meyerowitz has just completed his first year at Yale in theoretical astrophysics.

Akshay Gupta is majoring in physics and spending this summer working at CERN on ATLAS. Look for him out on Facebook. Megan Russ, left, is a research assistant and physics major at SUNY Geneseo.

Brookhaven/Stony Brook/Columbia Center