Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on the Cosmic Fellows: Got a cosmic ray detector? Use the e-Lab? Jeff Rodriguez opines, "If there's something weird and it don't look good, who you gonna call? Cosmic Ray fellows." This…

Spotlight on the LHC Fellows: There is a group of QuarkNet teachers standing behind our educational work with data from the Large Hadron Collider. If you want to use authentic LHC data in the…

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…