N3B And UNM-Los Alamos Team Up For Radiological Control Technician Boot Camp
Students in the Radiological Control Technician Boot Camp at UNM-LA attend a press conference July 30 at Northern New Mexico College. Front row from left, Josh Sandoval, Rafel Mertinez, Brandon Dunning, Michael Colyer and Jeremy Salazar. Back row from left, Matt Salazar, Kai Chappelle, Joe Heidman and David Abrams. Photo by Nancy Coombs/UNM-LA
UNM-LA News:
Nuclear News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) and the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) have partnered to offer a workforce development program to train participants to become Radiological Control Technicians (RCTs).
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Hundreds Attend Robotics Night Thanks To NMB&T
NMB&T’s Liz Cavasos, Leslie Harrelson and Pam Mayfield. Courtesy/BSMA Crawford/ladailypost.com
Scene from Robotics Night Aug. 23 at the Bradbury Science Museum. Courtesy/BSMA
BSMA News:
Hundreds of robotics enthusiasts gathered Aug. 23 at the Bradbury Science Museum, when more than 30 robotics teams from around the region were joined by the Los Alamos Police Department bomb diffusing robots, UNM-LA’s Robotics Degree Program and Los Alamos STEM Lab.
New Mexico Bank & Trust (NMB&T) sponsored the event.
“It’s nice to give back to the community,” NMB&T Vice President Read More
Natalie Aulwes Girl Scout Gold Award Project Offers Free Engineering Workshop For Girls 2-4 P.M. Saturday
LAHS Senior Natalie Aulwes. Photo by Elan GiorgiThe workshop Saturday will include learning about hand drafting, computer assisted design, basic circuits, and showcasing
EM’s Ike White Tours SRS Liquid Waste Facilities
Ike White, right, Senior Advisor for EM, engages DOE-Savannah River employees at a meeting after touring Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste facilities. Also pictured is SRS Manager Mike Budney. Courtesy/DOE
Ike White, left, Senior Advisor for EM, tours the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) with Cliff Conner, cognizant system engineer and process manager for Parsons, EM’s SWPF contractor at the Savannah River Site. Courtesy/DOE‘Innovation’ Word Of The Day For Air Force
KAFB News:Historical Society: Evolution Of Bathtub Row Press
The first published book by the Los Alamos Historical Society’s press. Courtesy/LAHS
By SHARON SNYDER and MAXINE JOPPA
Los Alamos Historical Society
In 1973, the alumni of the Los Alamos Ranch School arranged a huge reunion in Santa Fe. Many of the former students flew to Chicago just to take a special train to Lamy, a route many of them had taken as young boys.
John Shedd Reed, CEO of the Santa Fe Railroad and a member of the LARS Class of 1933, made the cars on that special train available. Once in Santa Fe, the alumni stayed at Bishop’s Lodge, then owned by Jim Thorpe, LARS Class of 1942.
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Scenes From Robotics Night At Bradbury Museum
Members of the Los Alamos Robotics Team 4153, known as Project Y, Zach Koehn, left, and Carter Noeninckyx operate the team’s ball tossing robot during Robotics Night Friday at the Bradbury Science Museum. Koehn and Noeninckyx said their team built the robot in six weeks.They added that competively, thus has been its best year, going all the way to the World’s Competition in April in Houston, Texas. They competed against 400 teams. Robotics Night featured robotics teams from regional schools and local groups with robots used by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos Police Read More
