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Quarknet Seminar Alisa Bredensteiner Endeavour Institute Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics Quarknet August 2010

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Page 1: Quarknet Seminar Alisa Bredensteiner Endeavour Institute Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics Quarknet August 2010

Quarknet Seminar

Alisa BredensteinerEndeavour Institute

Santa Cruz Institute of Particle PhysicsQuarknet

August 2010

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What happens when you mix one exuberant teacher…

Page 3: Quarknet Seminar Alisa Bredensteiner Endeavour Institute Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics Quarknet August 2010

… a group of excited

educators…

Page 4: Quarknet Seminar Alisa Bredensteiner Endeavour Institute Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics Quarknet August 2010

… some really expensive equipment…

Page 5: Quarknet Seminar Alisa Bredensteiner Endeavour Institute Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics Quarknet August 2010

… and lots of tape?

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Cosmic Ray Detection

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What I have gained from my week at SCIPP

• A better understanding of Cosmic Rays, particle decay, Supersymmetry and the Multiverse!

• A great reminder of how incredibly huge I am compared to say a muon.

• A great reminder of how incredibly tiny I am compared to say a universe.

• A CRMD • The tools to bring ‘real physics’ and cutting

edge scientific discovery to my classroom

Page 8: Quarknet Seminar Alisa Bredensteiner Endeavour Institute Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics Quarknet August 2010

Classroom Application2nd and 3rd year Endeavour students • One week introduction and research on

Cosmic Rays and muon detection• 3 weeks for student developed experiments,

analysis, and poster presentation.Future aspirations• Collaborative projects (comparison studies,

shower studies, etc…) with other schools• Introductory Unit with 1st year students

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