A small group of physicists at the above institutions is exploring how best to incorporate the exciting idea of cosmic ray detectors in high schools into actual learning of high school students in a natural way such that the students and high school teachers take some ownership of the project, while at the same time organizing any information received in such a way that it can be correlated with information from other sites, locally or even nationally. This collaboration is just beginning, and is presently quite loose. The physicists involved are:

Julia Thompson and Dave Kraus, Pitt and SIUE

Tom Foster, SIUE

Mehri Fadavi and Kunal Ghosh, Jackson State University

Harrison Prosper, Florida State University

News of our activities will be posted here, either directly or through links to other sites.

See one of the Nalta websites: (preliminary version or (later version) for some more details of other groups in North America working on similar projects.

Possible high school student activities have been developed in conjunction with Ms. Julie Breden of Southwestern High School in southern Illinois.

We expect to work with interested teachers (and possibly collaborating students) this summer at SIUE, in a wide range of possible high school teacher activities. We expect that each teacher will go back to her or his classroom with a minimum of a pair of scintillators and recording system which could be used for demonstrating and studying aspects of cosmic rays with their classes. We hope also to have at least a crude time-stamping mechanism for each teacher, to allow comparison of rates and events at different participating schools.