Los Alamos National Laboratory
Education
Students from Los Alamos Middle School celebrate their victory at the 2013 New Mexico Regional Science Bowl.
Contacts
- Executive Office Director
- Kathy Keith
- Community Partnerships Office
- (505) 665-4400
- Education
- Janelle Vigil-Maestas
- Community Partnerships Office
- (505) 665-4329
Investing in the future
Director McMillan on investing in education
Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), which operates Los Alamos National Laboratory, 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.
Promoting education
Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan wrote an opinion piece, Early inspiration needed to create STEM literacy. He listed three things we all can do to inspire children to scientific literacy and possibly a career at one of New Mexico's national laboratories:
- – Spark scientific inspiration in the children around you, cultivate curiosity
- – When the going gets tough, encourage them to keep going
- – Create an enriched environment early
McMillan also participated in a TEDx event in Albuquerque. (TEDx was built as a venue for sharing ideas and designed to celebrate communities, organizations, and individuals.)
In 2014
- Los Alamos National Laboratory supported more than 25 regional K-20 math and science education programs
- Employed 1,880 student interns
- Los Alamos Employees Scholarship Fund awarded $419,500 in scholarships to 73 northern New Mexico students
- Provided more than 2,721 hours of science education community service time
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