Welcome to Kids Day @ SLAC 2008

Mechanics 1: Build your own acrylic piggy bank; working with a mechanical technician assemble your very own piggy bank – COOL!

• Cuts, bumps, or scrapes from dropping or slipping tools or sharp edges of parts.

• Wear safety glasses.
• Use clamps and keep your hands away from moving parts.
• Pull hair back.
• Wear safety glasses.

Biology: Look closely at the world around you! Using microscopes, look at real structures - UGLY!

• Cuts, bumps, scrapes from dropping or slipping tools.

• Wash your hands after experiments; don’t drink solutions; tell the instructor if you break a microscope slide and stay away from moving robot parts.
• Wear safety glasses.

Radiation: You will use different radiation detection instruments to find different types of sources and radioactive materials that are common. Suit-up, you will find hidden radiation sources – GET HOT!

• Radiation (very small amounts – a fraction of what would be received from a medical x-ray).

• Listen to your instructor.
• Leave everything where you found it.

Hydro Rockets: At SLAC we look at tiny sub atomic particles. We send our detectors into space on rockets - HAVE A BLAST!

• Plastic bottle under pressure could rupture.
• Getting hit by a rocket.

• Stand back while bottle is pressurized and launched; pay attention and DO NOT TRY TO CATCH IT!
• Wear safety glasses.