\n Forty Chicago Public School students join in a group photo with Fermilab Interim Director Young-Kee Kim and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, center, during the graduation ceremony for the inaugural Saturday Morning Quantum program hosted by Fermilab. The event was held at the Olive Harvey College South Chicago Learning Center.
\n Courtesy of Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park\n <\/p>\n
Forty high school students with Chicago Public Schools graduated from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\u2019s Saturday Morning Quantum* program on May 31.<\/p>\n
The inaugural 10-week program was held at the Olive Harvey College Learning Center in Chicago\u2019s South Shore community, near the Midwest’s up and coming global destination for quantum, the Illinois Quantum Microelectronics Park \u2014 a planned 128-acre quantum computing technology campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeaching students about how the world works at the quantum level and how quantum technology could transform our life is imperative in this rapidly changing world,\u201d said Young-Kee Kim, interim director of Fermilab.<\/p>\n
This new program was modeled after Fermilab\u2019s Saturday Morning Physics (SMP) outreach program that is held annually at the laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. SMP has been successfully running for over 40 years.<\/p>\n
SMQ* \u2014 the asterisk meaning \u201cmore\u201d \u2014 was developed by Fermilab\u2019s Education and Public Engagement team along with the lab\u2019s Superconducting Quantum Materials Systems team to bring a quantum science curriculum to high school students in the city of Chicago.<\/p>\n
Once a week during the 10-week course students learned about core topics in the field of quantum science and quantum computing \u2014 including quantum mechanics, superconducting technology, quantum computing and sensing, engineering and cryogenic platforms for quantum computers.<\/p>\n
On top of gaining technical and scientific knowledge, students worked with quantum scientists and engineers and learn about what led them to pursue their career paths.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the experience, one student said, \u201cThanks to the teachers, I was able to learn more about quantum and quantum computing. There were no dumb questions in class.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Fermilab Education and Public Engagement Director Natalie Johnson leads the Saturday Morning Quantum graduation ceremony on May 31 in Chicago.
\n Courtesy of Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park\n <\/p>\n
Led by Fermilab staff, students also had the opportunity to tour laboratories and scientific spaces at Fermilab, including the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, where scientists and researchers work to develop and deploy the world\u2019s most powerful quantum computers and sensors.<\/p>\n
\u201cTouring Fermilab and learning what they do and how they do it was rewarding,\u201d said another student.<\/p>\n
During the graduation ceremony, students received certificates for completing the program.<\/p>\n
With programs like SMQ*, Fermilab is building pathways into science for Chicago area students by bringing hands-on learning and mentorship into the heart of Chicago while inspiring future generations of scientists.<\/p>\n
The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center at Fermilab is supported by the DOE Office of Science.<\/p>\n
The center is one of the five U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. Led by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the center is a collaboration of 36 partner institutions \u2014 national labs, academia and industry \u2014 working together to bring transformational advances in the field of quantum information science. The center leverages Fermilab\u2019s expertise in building complex particle accelerators to engineer multiqubit quantum processor platforms based on state-of-the-art qubits and superconducting technologies.<\/p>\n
Working hand in hand with embedded industry partners, the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center will build a quantum computer and new quantum sensors at Fermilab, which will open unprecedented computational opportunities. For more information, visit sqmscenter.fnal.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty Chicago Public School students join in a group photo with Fermilab Interim Director Young-Kee Kim and Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15584,960,1109,745,407,50,6280,159,1107,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-15535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-batavia","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-communities","11":"tag-computing","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-region","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-submitted-content","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114748151834897804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}