QuarkNet at CSU

In its ninth year, QuarkNet involves about 100,000 students from 500+ US high schools in: Web-based analysis of real data, collaboration with students worldwide, remote control of television cameras in experimental areas and visits by student representatives to the experiments. Through inquiry-oriented investigations students will learn kinematics, particles, waves, electricity and magnetism, energy and momentum, radioactive decay, optics, relativity, forces, and the structure of matter. QuarkNet has 50 centers in universities and laboratories participating in high-energy physics experiments. Initially, each center includes two mentor physicists and two high school physics teachers. In the Chicago area these centers include Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory, The University of Illinois at Chicago and Northern Illinois University.  This spring CSU became one these centers.

We are collaborating with two high schools of the area: Thornton Township High School and Brooks College Prep. this Fall we are installing particle detectors

so that the students and the teachers can perform cosmic rays (muons) experiments. These are the links to the activities going on at these schools

Thornton Township High School

Brooks College Prep

Edmundo Garcia

Science Building  # 234
9501 South King Dr.
Chicago, IL 60628-1598

773 - 995 - 2325 (voice mail)

773 - 995 - 3809  (fax)

edmundo.garcia@csu.edu