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I feel that labs are important also.  And last year, had a chance to
put my money where my mouth is, so to speak.
  Last year we started inviting local high school students to WSU to
do physics labs.  Generally, these turned out to be half or full day
field trips, and the students had the chance to work through three or four
labs.  These were


 related to what they were doing in their class.  The teachers had the
option of using our lab write ups, or their own, what ever they thought
would work.
  This has been very popular with the teachers in the AP and IB programs,
and our Dean, who thought it was a great idea.
  In the 93-94 school year, we had over 300 students come on campus to
do physics.  Will will have more this year.
  It also helps the teachers, because we use a lot of the stuff they have
in their building, but they just don't know how to put all the pieces
together to get a Wheatstone bride, potentiometer or some other strange
piece of lab equipment to do something useful.  So heck, while I go around
and help the students get the stuff set up, the teacher is right there,
taking notes...
  This program also helps deal with equipment shortages, short class periods
for labs, and other things.
   This all grew out of the Physics Alliance we started about 18 months ago.

C. W. Robertson