Black Hills State University/SURF QuarkNet Center

A collaboration of teachers, students and physicists involved in inquiry-based, particle physics explorations.

Center Leads:

  • Kara Keeter, BHSU (mentor)
  • Peggy Norris, SURF (mentor)
  • Chad Ronish, SURF (center director)
  • Doug Scribner, Lead Teacher

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Teachers, students and physicists working together to explore high energy physics.

 

 

Links :

Summer Project: Creation of a Data Visualization Program using R

Project Goal- To build an interactive website to visualize data taken from the weather detectors located at the 4850 level (4 Winze Wye, 17 Ledge, and Governor’s Corner) of SURF.  Day 1- 6/22/15…

2014 Annual Report - BHSU

Black Hills State University 2014 Annual Report   QuarkNet Center Name, number of years in the program Black Hills State University, Year 6   List of faculty/staff/student participants…

Multi class multi student flux study

Cosmic Ray Classroom Activity; “Know Your Machine”

Created by Team Awesome (Doug, Jim, and Zach from Newcastle, HS) at BHSU Quarknet Summer 2014.

NMDB Barometric Coefficient Calculation

pressure correction to CR flux to find Forbush Decrease during solar storm. http://cosray.phys.uoa.gr/nmdb-barometric/nmdb-barometric.htm from Neutron Monitor Database: http://www.nmdb.eu/?q=node/19…

It's No Coincidence student Activity w/Teacher Notes

Developed by Rose Emanuel, Chad Ronish, and LuAnn Lindskov during QuarkNet at BHSU in June, 2014

Four Fold Coincidence

Newbie

Looking forward to officially becoming a member and learning how to collect and upload data with our detector.