Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Fellows: Been to Data Camp or one of its progenitors? If so, you've worked with the Teaching and Learning fellows, who manage and facilitate this central QuarkNet…

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?…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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-…

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…

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…

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…