The Department of High Energy Physics reaches out to local students through its outreach program. Each summer, we welcome local students from Chicago Public Schools to our campus for a week of lectures from faculty members and hands-on exercises using current hardware and software. In years past, we have also set up longer experiments at individual schools. Click on the links below to find more information about the students involved and reference information about the projects that they did.

The HEP Outreach Program is made possible with support from the National Science Foundation.

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• 2011 On-Campus Summer Program
• Basic Projects Built
• Simple Game
• Arduino
• Arduino Reference
• Energy, Energy Transfers and Machines
• Energy Games and Activities
• Energy and Energy Transfers
• MSI's Simple Machines on-line interactive
• The Elements of Machines
• Human Body and Exercise Links
• Muscle Chart
• Muscle Puzzle
• Sport Science Videos
• “Let’s Move” Video
• Earth Science
• Japan Before and After Tsunami
• Plates on the Move
• Volcano Explorer
• HTML Help

• 2010 On-Campus Summer Program
Software
• Installing Python
• Instructions for installing Python on Windows
• Official Python Website
• Python program can be downloaded here
• Numpy
• Adds sophisticated arrays to Python. Needed for many games.
• Scipy
• Adds a package of tools for science and engineering to Python
• IPython
• Different shell for Python
• Matplotlib
• Allows simple plotting in Python
• PyGame
• Set of Python modules designed for writing games
• Alice.org
• Environment for 3D programming
Reference Material
• Learn Python the Hard Way (free pdf)
• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (free pdf, uses Python 3, but has chapter on differences between 2 and 3)
Sample Programs
• Guess the Number Game
• Requires Python only
• Lists and binary representation
• Requires Python only
• Word counting module
• Requires Python only
• Python PyGame Introduction
• Requires Python and PyGame
• Complex Game with Cannons
• Requires Python, Numpy and PyGame
• 2010 Cosmic Ray Activity at TFN High School
• Using the Cosmic Ray Detector
• Making a Cosmic Ray Detector
• Telescope Operating Manual
• HTML Help

• 2009 On-Campus Summer Program
• Sample Files
• Reference Material