• LEARN: Atmospheric Science Explorers, a four-year project that provides atmospheric science training for rural Colorado teachers completed its second year of funding with intensive trainingfor 33 teachers at NCAR during June 1998. An additional 218 teachers and 850 students participated in in-district training in the rural areas during the 1997-98 academic year.

Learn teachers build a model of an
ice crystal during June 1998 work-
shops in Boulder.

Nineteen students from the U.S. and Puerto Rico participated in the third summer of Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS).  The SOARS students worked with scientific mentors from six  NCAR divisions.

• Students from the states of Colorado and Wyoming entered 68 projects into the Colorado Computational Science Fair. Group and individual projects were submitted in the areas of Computational Science and Information Technology. Two computational science projects were sent to the national Adventures in Supercomputing Expo (held on June 19-20, 1998 in Washington, DC). The "Recursive Topographic Cost Analysis Project" from George Washington High School in Denver took first place in the Advanced Mathematics Category.

• During FY 1998, an estimated 60,000 visitors toured NCAR's Mesa Lab andthe Walter Orr Roberts Weather Trail. More than 12,000 visitors, including 7,581 students ranging from preschool through college level participated in guided tours. This represents an increase of 7% over the number of student visitors in FY 1997.

• Charlie Knight (MMM), Rajul Pandya (ASP) and Kevin Petty (ASP) were awarded the 1998 UCAR Outstanding Performance Award  for Education for their work in support of LEARN.