Mark your calendars: Saturday, June 26 is the date for Jefferson Lab's first Open House in four years!

The accelerator will be down the month of June for scheduled maintenance, allowing us the rare opportunity to open the Lab to the public. We hope to open a section of the accelerator and an experimental hall, and have exhibits and displays set up across the site, says Linda Ware, Public Affairs manager.

A committee of Lab staff from all divisions has already started meeting to plan the event. In addition to the many activities and exhibits held during previous Lab Open House events, this year other organizations, such as NASA, the Air & Space Museum, The Children's Museum of Virginia, and the ARC consortium members are being invited to set up exhibits and activities. A number of the hands-on math and science activities will be geared specifically toward children.

To carry the event off, many volunteers will be needed to perform cryogenic demonstrations; help develop and prepare exhibits; staff exhibits, displays and booths; act as tour guides and answer questions; help with crowd movement or act as escorts. When the time comes, please volunteer and help make this event a success. Let's give a sincere "thank you" to the region for its on-going support of the Lab.







Bright Spot on the Web

Editor's note: If you have or know of a website that could be informative or useful to Jefferson Lab staff, call the public affairs office at ext. 7689 or e-mail Linda Ware (ware@jlab.org).

This month we're visiting the U.S. State Department web site at http://travel.state.gov/. It is an expansive site chock full of interesting and useful information. A mouse click on "faq" takes you to a bookmarked section with answers to the site's most frequently asked questions. Also easy to access is the web site's index. Starting to think about an overseas vacation? Here you can get the latest information on passports, current international travel restrictions, and travel health issues and warnings.

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