Quick Shot

LLE’s Summer High School Research Program, now in its 29th year, involves students in many areas of investigation. The goal of this program, directed by Dr. Stephen Craxton, is to excite high school students about careers in the areas of science and technology by exposing them to research in a state-of-the-art environment. Shown above are four of the students with their projects. In the upper left is Ben Chaback (Byron Bergen High School), advised by Jim Knauer, with his Cherenkov-radiation neutron time-of-flight detector, which will measure neutrons on OMEGA experiments. In the upper right is Yujia Yang (Brighton High School), advised by Stephen Craxton, with one of her designs for future experiments on the National Ignition Facility. In the lower left is Claire Guo (Penfield High School), advised by Arijit Bose and Reuben Epstein, with a hydrodynamic simulation used to predict x-ray images. In the lower right and advised by Troy Walker and Greg Brent is Meshach Cornelius (Gates Chili High School) with a setup that monitors the deterioration of OMEGA flash lamps.