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Greetings back for a new year.  First off I was wondering if anyone could
tell me how to get a LabNet account on American On-Line and any opinions
of the system you may have.

Secondly, I was wondering what summer programs people have done and their
opinions of them.  I ventured through two summer programs.

The first was "Nuclear Concept and Technological Issues" at Penn State
University.  This was a wonderful program, but a lot of work, so if you
are looking for a relaxing summer I might not advise it.  It is a two
week program, and there was homework almost every evening. The proram was
organized very well with lectures in the morning and labs in the
afternoon.  Most of the lectures were very good with the obligatory 2 or
3 snoozers.  The labs were interesting and many could be used in the
classroom. The topics covered included nuclear waste and disposal, health
effects of radiations, the nuclear physics, how fission reactors work,
radon gas, irradiation of food and medical uses.  Penn State also has a
2MWatt reactor, which is small enough that all it needs for shielding is
water, thus you can stand in the reactor room and actually see the
reaction taking place.  What one actually sees is the Cherykov radiation
which produces a nice dull blue glow. For more info get in touch with
Candace Davidson at the Breazeale Reactor, Dept of Nuclear Engineering at
Penn State, University Park, PA.   Penn State was also a very nice campus
to spend 2 weeks on.

The second program I went through was "Ticket to The Sky" at Embry-Riddle
University which is in Daytona Beach. This was a teachers program in
aviation and aeronautical engineering.  It was not as mathematical as the
Penn State program, and there was not as much actual physics as I would
have liked. The program is only in its second year, sponsored by an
Eisenhour Grant, so it is still somewhat disorganized, but I see the
potential in this program. We studied aviation, air craft control, had
two hours of flight lessons, unlimited observing flights, weather and
flight maps and plans, rocketry, GPS, history of aviation, and much much
more.   Additionally, EPCOT is free to teachers and only about an hour
from Daytona. The campus is slightly isolated and far from the beach. The
program was not very difficult, but a lot of fun.  The contact person is
Patracia-Ryan at the Teachers Resource Center of Embry-Riddle University in
Daytona.


Gary Garber
Germantown Friends School
31 W. Coulter St.
Philly, The City of Brotherly Love  :)
215-951-2300
"If you can't laugh, you are better off dead!"  Roger Rabbit.