Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune – In hushed voices in a darkened room, John and James Kountz stared intently at what looked to any unsuspecting person like a computer screen inside a metal suitcase. The identical twins in matching forest-green shirts leaned in and watched as two frequencies created hills and valleys on the screen of the Quantenkoffer, a $250,000 quantum optics laboratory machine housed in Chicago State University’s Quantum Education, Science & Technology Center, as they searched for the smallest discrepancies in the data.
Other college freshmen might be outside soaking up the nice weather on this sunny September day. But for the Kountz twins, being nestled inside the CSU quantum center is the best place to be, a second home where they can get hands-on experience with quantum physics, biology and more.
It’s a career path the engineering physics majors didn’t envision when they first started learning about science and engineering, but one that has become a passion, growing by the day as they begin their college years.
