User:Leacock

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Bill Leacock

Bill teaches Regents Physics, AP Physics B, AP Physics C and Science research at Wellington C. Mepham High School. He has been been Vice President of the Long Island Physics Teachers Association for the past twelve years. Bill has served as a physics Mentor and is presently Nassau County Section Area Representative for the Science Teachers Association of New York State.

Bill is presently trying his skills at combining freeform modern art with high energy physics. Despite the laisse-fair appearance of the wires each was carefully placed to give the impression of disorder.

At present, the detector assembly at Mepham High School is taking data from the four installed scintillator panels and we are working on connecting the system for automatic uploading to the Mariachi server.

Bill was fortunate enough to Mentor Josh Seidman, a senior at Mepham who worked with Helio Takai studying the relationship between cosmic radiation and lightning strokes for which Josh was a 2006 Intel semifinalist, a first for Quarknet. Bill was also fortunate enough to mentor Isaac Degani who worked on a project involving the creation of an algorythm which could discriminate between radio signals being reflected off of airborne phenomena such as airplanes, meteors and cosmic ray events. He received recognition as a 2008 Intel Semifinalist.

Bill has been recognized for his teaching several times. He has received the Tandy Award, was a 2002 State finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the 2005 Nassau County STANYS (Science Teacher Association of New York State) Teacher of the Year Award, and the 2006 STANYS Statewide Teacher of the Year (Excellence in Teaching Award). In 2008 Bill received the Presidential Award (PAEMST) and was sent to Washington D.C. for a week of Recognition Events. For more information see www.paemst.org

Bill has written a few procedures for Mariachi:

Media:How_to_import_scintillator_data_into_Excel_-.pdf

Media:Instructions_for_building_the_magnetometer..pdf

Bill has also been a member of Transition Saxophone Quartet since its inception in 1987, playing everything from classical to jazz.