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Volunteer escorts will take girls to 2 workshops in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. If sponsors wish to attend workshops with the girls then they must sign up to be an escort. We need many escorts and all SLAC staff members are welcome to volunteer for 2-1/2 hours in the morning, afternoon or both.

ALL girls will CHOOSE either Set 1 or Set 2 on the registration form... first come, first serve.

Workshop Set 1 - Cryogenics:  Learn about the field of cryogenics, see the effect of cryogenic temperatures on everyday items, check out superconductor-levitating magnets, observe a film on super-fluid helium phenomenon and tour an operating cryogenic refrigerator - CHILL OUT!  Electronics: Build a continuity  checker complete with test leads and indicator light. Work one on one with an electronics technician to strip, solder and assemble the unit that you will take home to determine the conductivity of everyday objects - GET A CHARGE!  Metrology:  In the metrology lab you will use precision instruments to see how flat is flat and how round is round. Bend granite beams with a single finger! - MEASURE UP!  Vacuum: Experience the discipline that is required to make a good vacuum. You will mount flanges and leak check a vacuum system. Then the vacuum group demonstrates the effect of a vacuum on different materials and objects from everyday life - SUCK IT IN!

Workshop Set 2 - Magnetics: The magnetic measurements lab begins with demonstrations of motors and generators, you will use current carrying wires and blocks of metal to see how they interact with magnetic fields. You will make a steel compass and feel the force - PULL TOGETHER!  Radiation: Get introduced to radiation! You will use different radiation detection instruments to find different types of sources and radioactive materials that are common (bananas, etc.). You will also see the tracks left by radioactive elements in a sealed box filled with dry ice - MAKE TRACKS!  Mechanics: Build your own Compact Disk holder. You will work one on one with a mechanical technician to lay out a hole pattern, use a small drill press and using threaded rod and chassis spacers, assemble your very own CD holder - SPIN OUT!  Optics: Take pictures with a camera obscura! Line up your lenses... objective, convex, concave. Send laser beams through slits and make crazy patterns - GET FOCUSSED!

Ten girls ages 13 years or older, can sign up for a special afternoon workshop.

Video Workshop - Learn about video equipment, computer generated presentation slides and video conference networks. Girls, ages 13 and up, will each work at their own computer workstation to generate a short presentation. Then they will learn about the video conference system that links SLAC to other government laboratories and universities that is used by scientists and engineers to exchange ideas and coordinate programs and use it to give their own presentations. Girls who do this workshop will still sign up for workshop set 1 or set 2, but will not attend those workshops in the afternoon session. The conference room and computer training rooms have very limited seating - REACH OUT!

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Teresa Troxel 27-May-2002