Friday Flyer - October 31, 2014

Spotlight on UC Riverside QuarkNet Center: The QuarkNet center at the University of California Riverside focused this past year on masterclasses for two reasons: they have their own twist on it and they are good at it. If you catch it just right in March when the U.S. has "sprung ahead" an hour but Europe has not, Riverside is only eight hours behind CERN. Nevertheless, ever since they started masterclasses about seven years ago, Riverside QuarkNet students and teachers have done their masterclass one day and then gotten up early the next day for a CERN videoconference at 8 am PT. There is a certain spirit to Riverside masterclass. Students often sport customized masterclass T-shirts, and the event is often covered by the Riverside Press Enterprise. If you are in Southern California, the Riverside QuarkNet center is the only currently active center in your neck of the woods. Interested? Contact Ken Cecire and he'll put you in touch with the mentors: Bob Clare, robert.clare@ucr.edu; Bill Gary, bill.gary@cern.ch; Owen Long, owen.long@ucr.edu.

News from QuarkNet Central: Got a detector? It's a good time to update under Detector Information how you and your students used the detector since September 2013.
Check the DAQ number(s). Still yours?
What did you do? Did you upload data to the e-Lab? Did you use the detector with your AP class in the spring? Maybe your science club did an investigation or you used it at your center during the summer. 
Let us know! When we put it altogether, it tells a story to DOE and NSF about how you are using data with your students.

Physics Experiment Roundup: Who Really Found the Higgs Boson, http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/who-really-found-the-higgs-boson (from Nautilus)

Resources: From Don Dean - Want to show a portion of the video or flip your classroom? Try EDpuzzle (https://edpuzzle.com/) to cut snippets out of larger YouTube videos and embed them into your classroom platform (i.e., Moodle, Edmodo, My Big Campus, or personal webpage); actually kind of nice if you simply want to highlight a portion of a video or cut out unnecessary or inappropriate content.

QuarkNet Staff Teachers:
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Tom Jordan: jordant@fnal.gov
Bob Peterson: rspete@fnal.gov