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L. C. Beavis, Sandia Corporation, lec-
tures
during
the short course
vacuum
technology,
mercial
vendors,
left.
on
Examining
vacuum equipment furnished by comright,
are
Tracy
Manes, standing, and Ken Battat, both
of Los Alamos High School. High
School students Emily Ranken, fore-
ground, and Lynn Hayes, talk with an
equipment manufacturer’s representative, far right. Glenn Fishbine and
Allan Treiman, bottom left, who were
selected from the local high school to
attend the short course, talk with Bea-
vis during a break. Bottom right, Karl
Johnson, K-3, gives an “Introduction
to Vacuum”talk to a high school physics class.
Glenn Fishbine and Allan Treiman, students at Los Alamos High
School,
attended
the
three-day
course under grants from the New
Mexico chapter and were selected
for the honor on the basis of out-
standing
classroom
participation
and interest in vacuum technology
by Physics Teacher Robert Cas-
For successful completion of the
course, Fishbine, Treiman and personnel from LASL and the Sandia
Corporation will receive ‘“Certifi-
questions so they would havea better understanding of equipment on
to see exhibits furnished by com-
science and engineering. This objective is fulfilled by sponsoring
symposia and publications. Addi-
cates of Completion.”
More than 600 persons registered
mercial vendors of vacuum equipment. The two chapter officials said
from the Laboratory and about 100
tional objectives are the promotion
of education and research in vacuum technology and the establishment of standards for nomencla-
Prior to the student visits, John-
performance of vacuum equipment. These have been met by
well. In the past, grants have been
many visitors were not connected
with the Vacuum Society event and
included other interested scientists
are greater opportunities for schol-
students from four physics classes
at the local high school.
made available to students at the
college level, Winkleman said, but
because chapter officials felt there
arships, grants and other types of
assistance at that level, the awards
were made, for the first time in the
chapter's history, to high school students.
exhibit.
The AVS was founded 16 years
azo “to promote communication
among people interested in vacuum
son presented a short lecture, ‘‘Introduction to Vacuum,” to each
class at the school and entertained
ture,
measuring
techniques,
and
making educational films and by
publication of vacuum standards.”
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