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Spotlight on the Top Quark: It has been 20 years now since the top quark was discovered at Fermilab. You can recreate some of the excitement of 1995 with a QuarkNet activity that enables your students to use the physics you teach anyway, like conservation laws and vector addition, along…

Spotlight on Dan Karmgard: You may know Dan - or you may not. Dan Karmgard is a QuarkNet PI who is not always seen in the national QuarkNet collaboration but fills some important roles. After service in the Air Force, Dan got a B.S. in Physics from UCLA and an Ph.D. from Florida State. As a…

Spotlight on what to do now that masterclasses are over: International Masterclasses 2015 have just about concluded. In QuarkNet, 19 centers held 28 separate masterclasses this March. That's a lot of students who just got excited about particle physics . . . so what's next? How can you keep…

Spotlight on Cloud Chambers: For over 12 years QuarkNet has offered classroom cosmic ray detectors to teachers. These detectors based on scintillator/PMT counters and GPS-timed DAQs have enabled precise time cosmic ray data collection, but “how do I know the detector is measuring something…

News from QuarkNet Central: QuarkNet is preparing workshops that introduce the methodologies of "teaching with data" to local centers. We call these Data Workshops. We have created several classroom-ready activities that expose students to data analysis and help them to develop the skills…

Spotlight on Tom McCauley: You are at your QuarkNet center for a CMS masterclass. As the students busily pour through electrons and muons, W's, Z's, and more, perhaps you wonder who prepared such a rich dataset for them to use. The answer is Tom McCauley, our QuarkNet colleague at CERN. Tom, a…

Spotlight on Wayne State University: Wayne State University has a small but thriving QuarkNet center located in the heart of Detroit. Engagement with the community is an important aspect of their programs. Each summer, mentors Rob Harr and Gil Paz bring 12 students to campus for research with…

Spotlight on International Muon Week: IMW has passed, but the work goes on. Last week, 42 participant schools fired up their cosmic ray detectors to capture a weeklong snapshot of cosmic ray data bathing the planet. The schools were far-flung covering the corners of the globe. Going into the week,…

Today is my last day here at TU Dresden and this will be the last QuarkNet an der Elbe. The past two weeks have been exciting and scary as we have been gearing up for International Masterclasses 2015. Last week, Uta and I both went to CERN for the masterclass moderator orientation…