Tours
CARS will gladly arrange tours for high school and college students and for the general public. In a typical year, more than 100 visitors tour CARS.
Tours usually include a short presentation on how the Advanced Photon Source works and the kind of research we do at CARS, followed by visits to one or more of our sectors. If no experiment is in progress, visitors can enter an experimental station. Tours can also include a stop at the observation decks of the APS, which give a birds-eye view of the synchrotron ring.
Advance notice is required because of restrictions on site access. (Tuesday is a good day to visit, because the machine is shut down and lots of impressive equipment can be opened to view!) We can accommodate groups of 25 or fewer people.
- For tours of CARS only, contact Katie Tietz, 630-252-0450, tietz@cars.uchicago.edu.
- For tours including other aspects of Argonne, contact Argonne's tour coordinator at (630) 252-5562 or tours@anl.gov.
Selected Recent Tour Groups
- X-ray microscopy conference attendees
- Japanese high school students and their teachers, Shizuoka Kita Program
- physics undergraduates, Hanover College, Indiana
- chemistry undergraduates, College of DuPage (community college)
- sixth- to eighth-grade girls, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (Argonne event)
- high-school girls, Science Careers in Search of Women (Argonne event)
- chemistry undergraduates employed in the U.S. Departmentof Energy (DOE) Research Experience for Undergraduates program at the University of Chicago
- working science teachers and science teachers-in-training participating in summer research programs at Argonne