His popular classes are full of hands-on science opportunities for students. In the last 10 years, his students have built robots, electric cars, cosmic ray detectors, radio stations, kite aerial photography rigs, and much more. This summer (2003), Muhs & a few of his students will travel to Palestine, Tx, to send a portable cosmic ray detector aloft on a NASA balloon to 100,000 feet. Eric is a long-time member of QuarkNet, a professional development organization for physics teachers, and WALTA, a school-based cosmic ray detector network collaboration with the University of Washington. Eric's picture was taken from a kite at the South Pole during his TEA experience at the South Pole in December 2002.