Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on Altitude with Attitude: Several QuarkNet centers did the cosmic ray flux vs. altitude experiment this past summer. The Colorado State group drove two cosmic ray detectors high up into…

Spotlight on the New Academic Year: The Friday Flyer is back for 2015-2016! QuarkNet is developing at an increased pace this year, so watch this space to keep up with the news. Among the events…

Spotlight on Summer 2015: Summer is upon us, and starting next week, the Friday Flyer will be on hiatus until September, unless we run a special edition. (Who knows what discoveries are around the…

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…

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…

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…