Education
Our good neighbor pledge: to contribute to quality of life in Northern New Mexico through economic development, excellence in education, and active employee engagement in our communities.
June 15, 2012
![Science Bowl Winners Go to Nationals](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120915101125im_/http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7230/7363330368_1f620d2e6b_z.jpg)
Members of the Los Alamos High School Science Bowl Team were in Washington, DC, after their regional win, representing New Mexico in the 22nd Annual Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl.
Contact
- Community Programs Manager
- Carol Rutten
- Community Programs Office
- (505) 664-0275
"Support of education matters because a substantial part of our workforce is drawn from Northern New Mexico."
Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), which operates LANL, is committed to providing a positive and sustainable impact on our region by leveraging direct and indirect community investments in education.
LANS invests more than $1 million each year to enhance educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education regionally and nationally.
Education focus areas
- Workforce development
- Student internships
- Teacher and faculty professional development
- Public understanding of science
We support more than 30 regional K-12 math and science education programs that include, but are not limited to
- Bradbury Science Museum programs
- Robo Rave International
- Middle & high school science bowls
- Supercomputing Challenge
In 2011
- 1,179 students did internships at LANL
- Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund awarded $522,000 in scholarships to 72 Northern New Mexico students
- LANL employees served more than 3,000 hours of science education community service time
Regional education partners
- New Mexico Highlands University
- Computer Science
- Northern New Mexico College
- Teacher Education, Nursing, and Science
- Santa Fe Community College
- Advanced Technologies, Biofuels, Environmental, Facilities, and Green Building
- University of New Mexico-Los Alamos
- Applied Technologies, Electromechanical, Manufacturing, and Nano-Technologies
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation
- Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund
- Northern New Mexico Inquiry Science Education Consortium