Picnic means food, fun, camaraderie for Laboratory students, mentors

Glen Wurden of Plasma Physics (P-24) hits a ball out of the park at the annual student/mentor picnic last Thursday at Urban Park in Los Alamos. A mentor to 14 students, Wurden is a member of the Lab's magnetic fusion team, where he performs experiments with plasma. The picnic was sponsored by the Lab's Students' Association and the Student Programs Advisory Council. About 1,000 students attended the event, a sharp increase from only a few hundred last year.

	Leah Sandoval, center, of the Student Programs Office (STB-EPO), Mindy Mendez and Los Alamos High School senior Alex MacDonell, partially obscured, both of STB-EPO, and Brenda Montoya, far left, of Staffing (HR-S), handle the task of hamburger cooking at the annual student-mentor picnic.
Leila Rashedi, center, keeps an eye on the volleyball as a teammate attempts to serve it over the net at last Thursday's student picnic at Urban Park. A mechanical engineering major at the University of Texas, Rashedi is a summer student in PIT Disposition Science and Technology (NMT-15). Photos by Michael Carlson, Public Affairs.

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