Home is where the school is by ELISABETH HULETTE Staff Writer

When he was 15 years old, Peter Heuer and a friend he met at astronomy camp started building a cyclotron, an experimental physics device that smashes atomic particles together.

Photo: Heidi Baumgartner and Peter Heuer

Three years later, he has gained grant funding and assistance from a team of scientists at the Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va. But Peter and his family say he might never have had time for the project if he had attended a regular school.
"Usually this is like a graduate thesis thing," said Peter, who has been home-schooled since first grade and used his flexible schedule to chase his interest in physics.

About 1,700 students in Anne Arundel County and 1.5 million nationwide - that's 2.9 percent of school-age children - are home-schooled. Yet the ins and outs of home schooling often remain a mystery to families who send their children to public or private schools.
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Related links
The Cyclotron Kids (A group of high schooled students building their own 2.3 MeV cyclotron for experimentation.)
Cyclotron (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Source: The Capital