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Welcome to the Virginia Tech QuarkNet group. To start, here are three things you can do right now: Create/edit your site profile (please do ASAP!) 1.     In the top menu, roll over "My stuff" 2.     Choose "My profile" 3.     Under…

Spotlight on the LIGO e--Lab: Are you looking for a cool way for beginning physics students to use v = d/t? Perhaps you have an earth science class that might benefit from authentic seismic data? Then the LIGO e-Lab is a place you might want to look. LIGO is the Laser Interferometer…

Timeline in reverse chronological order: May 13, 2015 - Revised after comments by Jean and returned for futher edits or approval - student_v3 - teacher_v3 - report_v3 April 29, 2015 - After Jeremy's edits - student_v2 - teacher_v2 - report_v2; teacher_v2.1 (w/o additional NGSS) April 24, 2015 - New…

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…