QuarkNet @ STEMarts Bootcamp - Sept. 7, 2024

Saturday, 7 September 2024

Taos, NM - The Hive

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/taos7sept

9:00 - 9:30 Participants arrive

9:30 - 11:00 QuarkNet: Hands-On Particle Physics

• Introductions
• Activity: Cloud chamber observations
  • In-person cloud chamber - What do you notice? What do you wonder?
  • Back-up: Video of cloud chamber
  • Tracks tell stories
• Context: 
  • Video - Neil deGrasse Tyson: Most Astounding Fact (3’33”)
  • Video - Powers of 10 (short version - large only) (4’52”)
    Powers of 10 (long version - large & small) (9’36”)
  • Big to small
• Activity: Shuffling the Particle Deck
  • The Standard Model - one version
  • The Standard Model - another version!
• Activity: Act out a collision at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Proton + Proton → Z → 𝝁^-𝝁⁺
  • Events from CMS Detector at the LHC (iSpy WebGL)
• Q&A
• Reflection
  • What have you learned about our universe? 
  • What do you wonder about our universe…that’s both within us, and that we are within? 
  • How will you communicate what you have learned with the public?
  • What from this morning inspire your art?