Tag: Countries
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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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Cosmic ray outreach in Stockholm
INTRO The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm House of Science offer high school projects on cosmic rays to Swedish students in the final year of high school. Muon detectors of different sizes are available for students to borrow, or use in our research labs. The participating students pose their own research questions, which…
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Cazadores de Rayos Gamma
INTRO Cazadores de Rayos Gamma is a high energy astrophysics web application where students can analyse data from the MAGIC telescopes using a python programming environment. This outreach application combines a storytelling approach with science and programming challenges for the users. 4 PhD students introduce the user into high energy astrphysics research and the observations and…
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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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CREDO
INTRO Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is an expanding world wide network of cosmic ray detectors, utilising both professional observatories and private mobile devices such as smartphones. The main objective of CREDO is to look for cosmic ray events which are extended in both time and space and thus beyond the abilities of localised detectors…
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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…
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INFN-OCRA
INTRO OCRA – Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities was born in 2018 as a national outreach project of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) with the aim of collecting, within a national framework, the numerous public engagement activities in the field of cosmic ray physics already present at a local level in the divisions…