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Nov. 26, 07__** At last JK and I were able to go to the Quarknet Center today after school, but before we did that I went to the e-lab while at school and tried to decipher some data collected by previous St. Joe students. Unfortunatley the data was to much for me to handle at this point in time. When we got to the Quarknet Center we were briefed by Dr. L and began to put a Cosmic Ray detector together. Also while we were putting it together we double checked the instructions that we were given to see if they were accurate and easy so alomast anybody could put it togther. We found a few spots that could lead to confusion but nothing to serious as to mess the job up. Upon completion of the detector we fired everything up and started to look at some data, but we can't recieve "real" data since our GPS unit is not in place. If you look at the Cosmic Ray homepage you'll see a link to a very detailed instruction book for a detector that Dr. L graciously put up for us.
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Today was kind of a slow day, not much got done. I went to the e-lab and played around with some, none of them are that important to mention. I'll really be looking to picking things back up tomorrow.
 * __Nov. 27, 07__**

Today was a ery productive day. First, in school I looked over two different types of tutorials for a performance study and a lifetime study and after I got a good readthrough I tested both of them out and they worked wonderfully. I saved my graphs so I can pull up the data that I worked with at anytime. After school at the Quarknet Center, even more was accomplished. Since JK was absent DL did an amazing job on filling in for him and directed to me to where I need to go to really get rolling. The first thing we did was to finish I detector assembly by finding a spot to mount our GPS receiver and connecting a specialized Cosmic Ray computer to the internet. From there we looked at live streaming data and copied some of it to a file so that we could upload it to the e-lab and study it, but before we could do that we had to register our detector to the e-lab. This is where we started to run into a little bit of a snag. We started to type in the data required when somehow we couldn't figure out the right longitude and latitude. Unfortunately, we ran out of time and we didn't think it was necessary to save since we didn't put in anything that could'nt be brought back up really fast. Hopefully on Friday morning when we go back, we'll be able to figure it out. (Found a few link errors on the updated Cosmic Ray e-lab)
 * __Nov. 28, 07__**

Today in class DL brought in a website evaluator and she told us what she does. She looked in on JK and I for a little bit and saw me updating my logbook and she watched JK do a Flux study. She asked us a few questions and then went on to everyone else. From there i went bak to the Lifetime study and Performance study to see if I could get a better grip on them. I understand them a little better, but I still don't have a complete understanding on what is going on.
 * __Nov. 29, 07__**

Following up on having the evaluator ome yesterday, Jk and I went to the Quarknet center so we could help her out with her job. Her and DL had us go to the e-lab and just browse through all the links from the start and see if there were any glithces in the server. From there they interviewed us on how comprehendable the e-lab was and if it did a good job explaining things and going in order. We did that for about an hour and a half then i caught JK up on what DL and I did on Wednesday sp we could just pick things back up the next time we go there.
 * __Nov. 30, 07__**