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Director McMillan on investing in education

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