News and Events

September 16th, Tuesday
The NASA 50th menu link is working now, the Maker Faire section is up to date, and the Tesla Coil demo schedule has been updated. The next demo is on the 8th of October followed by another the following day on the 9th. :]

August 25th, Monday
A New York Times article about the Maker Faire's Tesla Coil demo has been posted on the Tesla Coil page. :]

Regular SCIPP Outreach Activities

Tesla Coil Demo

Tesla Coil

The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics' Outreach Program gets students electrified about learning physics using a Tesla Coil which generates dazzling electrical arcs about 5 feet (1.5 meters) in length. You can have a Tesla Coil Demonstration at your school to get your students charged up to learn about physics.

Click HERE for more information

Balloon Fest 08

Balloon Fest

Every year SCIPP Outreach and Paso Robles High School collaborate on a launch of scientific balloons. Teams of high school and middle school students supervised by teachers, professors and undergrad students from UCSC will be launching balloons and gathering scientific data.

Click HERE for more information

Teacher's Workshop 08

Teacher's Workshop

For the last few years we have held one-week summer workshops at UCSC to work with high school teachers on analysis and understanding of scientific data with special emphasis on data taken by cosmic ray detectors provided by Quarknet. The program is devoted to cosmic ray detection and measurement of the muon lifetime. In both 2007 and 2008 we had 7 attendees.

Click HERE for more information.

Special Activities

Maker Faire

SCIPP Outreach participated in the Maker Faire in front of 65,000 people.
Click HERE for more information.

GLAST

SCIPP Outreach visited and explained GLAST to astronauts and engineers at the NASA 50th Forum.
Click HERE for more information.

Our programs are publicly funded by Quarknet, the California Space Grant Consortium (CALSPACE), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) via the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope experiment (GLAST).