Today, I am driving to the airport for the kickoff of this year’s SMU Society of Physics Students trip to a major ecientific facility. We are headed (more) west, to the Silicon Valley and Bay Area of California. Specifcally, thanks to generous support from Larry Lightner and from deposits from each student, we are going to see the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Lick Observatory, Google, The Exploratorium (one of this nations’s FINEST science education landmarks), and other beacons of science and technology.
I’ll post entries and photos as the trip continues, and links to content produced by the eight undergraduates going on the trip.