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World Wide Data Day is a collaboration between Quarknet, CERN, and dozens of high schools from over 20 countries. Students learn about particle physics, including the princples of the standard model, particle collisions, and the international collaboration that fuels modern day physics.
Quarknet is a fantastic program for introducing high school teachers and students to the world of particle physics. I've been able to help facilitate this program for 5 years at multiple schools. If you'd like to have your school participate in World Wide Data Day, check out the quarknet website for more information!
Here you can see a brief outline of Village's contribution to 2021's World Wide Data Day.
Participating students attended 1-2 afterschool sessions where they learned about the basis of the standard model, modern particle accelerators, and the detectors that provide the data they will analyze.
Students then used the iSpy Data Visualizer to identify and measure specific di-muon events.
By altering the angle of the program they found the relative trajectory of individual muons and developed a preliminary dataset.
Student's data was then combined with data from schools across the globe. The combined data revealed trends that the student's isolated data values were unlikely to show.
Our school discussed the data via videoconference with collaborators in Indiana, Boston, and France. Students asked questions of each other and our Physicist moderator.
Our prospective physicists even designed a showcase and presented their experience during our 2022 Innovation Day!
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