Balloon Fest

Balloon Fest 2014: Saturday May 3

Every year SCIPP Outreach and Endeavour Academy 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.

 

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. We try to combine the teachers workshop with a 4 week long H.S. student internship program, also funded by QuarkNet.

 

High School Internship:

2014 Dates: July 7 - August 1

For 4 weeks during the Summer of 2014, HS Students will work with a HS Teacher Mentor, and UC Professors and students, 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.

 

News and Events

SCIPP is hosting a QuarkNet masterclass this year on March 7th, 2015. The LHC Masterclass is a project that allows interested high school students to spend one day learning about particle physics and analyzing data from an LHC experiment. These masterclasses are held at locations throughout the world and connected via videoconferencing for presentation of results.

 

Check out the Balloon Fest 2014 Photos!!!

 

Our programs are funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation through QuarkNet, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) via the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope(Fermi).