Category: Past Projects
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QuarkNet Cymru
QuarkNet Cymru builds on existing STEM programmes linked with HiSPARC and QuarkNet and a programme to pilot the use of cosmic ray detectors in schools across South Wales. Since January 2016, the project has tried to enthuse secondary school students in STEM activities through engagement in real hands-on astrophysics experiments — measuring cosmic rays using detectors…
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HiSPARC
INTRO High School Project on Astrophysics Research with Cosmics (HiSPARC) is a project in which secondary schools and academic institutions join forces and form a network to measure cosmic rays with extremely high energy. HiSPARC offers students the opportunity to participate in real research, with the purpose of finding out more about these mysterious and rare…
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Detecting Cosmic Rays – possible student projects
INTRO Three portable scintillation telescopes, each comprising a pair of scintillators, have been constructed, following the QuarkNet design, in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham. These telescopes can be set up and used conveniently by students to measure the flux of cosmic rays; its dependence on distance between the scintillators,…
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QuarkNet-TW
INTRO QuarkNet-TW started in 2006. While we have worked with both high school and university students, most participants have been university students. We have prepared full usage of raspberry pi and python programs. (Using the QuarkNet detector is included in the senior course “Experiment for Modern Physics” by the Physics Department of National Cheng Kung University.)…
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Showers of Knowledge
INTRO Showers of Knowledge is an open outreach educational project that aims to bring internet users worldwide to an analysis of data of the of real online cosmic-rays experiment. It is developed at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia). The project consists of the distributed setup for researching cosmic rays RUSALKA (“mermaid”), comprising 11 stations…
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tan-Q
INTRO Tan-Q is a collaboration group to enhance cosmic-ray research activities by secondary students in Japan managed by several high energy research facilities. We developed an original comic ray detector for secondary students, and distribute to schools in Japan. Each student group proceeds with a unique research activity with university student mentor, and they lively exchange…