Friday Flyer - April 10, 2015

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 students who just got excited about particle physics . . . so what's next? How can you keep them on beam with exciting activities? Well, there are opportunities for varying levels and interests from the Rock the LHC video competition to keep data probing with the CMS e-Lab. You can find a whole range of ideas and resources in the Masterclass Library Follow-on page.

(What? Your center did not have a masterclass? E-mail us! Maybe you can start the ball rolling with a Data Workshop this summer.) 

Physics Experiment Roundup: NOvA live event display - refreshes every 15 seconds and shows near and far detectors

Resources: The Truth About Black Holes, the Large Hadron Collider, and Finding Parallel Universes, by Don Lincoln in the Huffington Post

Just for Fun: Water balloon physics - neat little video from SciencePorn

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