SO ae IAM OI run eso ar en oo Se Mt a? AD 4b or ak 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.” Ee 15