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News Releases LANS donates funds to LANL Foundation for new science education consortium
LANL Foundation Executive Director Susan Herrera at a check presentation Thursday in Pojoaque.
June 14, 2010—Los Alamos National Security, LLC presented a check for $171,500 to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation for a new science education consortium to train teachers and principals in four local school districts.
Community Programs Office Director Kurt Steinhaus presented a check on behalf of LANS to Susan Herrera, executive director of the LANL Foundation during a presentation and teacher training workshop at the Buffalo Thunder Resort in Pojoaque. The investment by LANS will allow the foundation to purchase science kits for 163 classrooms and schools participating in the program. The inquiry-based science kits that kindergarten through sixth grade teachers will use are part of this regional initiative to improve science literacy.
The foundation plans additional training for teachers and principals in August at Carlos Vigil Middle School in Española. Santa Fe, Española, Mesa Vista, and Peñasco school districts are part of the consortium.
Margo Shirley,left, and Diane Garcia Poe, right, elementary school principals with Santa Fe Public Schools, take part in a balance and motion physics lesson during a workshop Thursday. The clothes pins act as counterweights and change the balance of the object - paper crayfish. Standing is Mary Beth Meggett of Foss, one of the partners in the consortium. Photos by LeRoy N. Sanchez
Fast Facts
People
11,127 total employees
Los Alamos National Security, LLC 8,683
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force) 419
Contractors 606
Students 1,101
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $5.9 billion
Budget FY 2012: Approx. $2.2 billion
57% Weapons programs
9% Nonproliferation programs
7% Safeguards and Security
8% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
4% Energy and other programs
11% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics (LANS and students only)
34% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe,
Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
70% male, 30% female
43% minorities
63% university degrees
· 23% hold undergraduate degrees
· 16% hold graduate degrees
· 24% have earned a Ph.D.
Major Awards
121 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines