for specific applications. The college’s two Q-switchable, doublable,mode-lockable neodymium: YAG (yttrium aluminum garnet) lasers, and a 10-watt carbondioxide laser were the stars of the show. Participants saw the destructive results of high-powerlasers from some samples available in the College’s high powered laser laboratory.The favorite experiments were definitely the holograms and the high-power laser demonstration,and possibly the alignment exercise. Least favorites were the monochromator and thepolarization-sensitivity experiments. Overall, most of the active participants indicated that theygot a very valuable experience from this part of the program.CAD: The computer aided-design portion of TechASCEND introduced participantsto basic
shoebox.These images are of students’ environments before (left) and after (right) adding water. Page 22.283.19The pictures above are of oil spills before clean-up (left) and during clean-up (right). Severalstudents removed some of their land forms to make clean-up easier. Discussion followed as towhether they could do that in real life.The image above is of one of the most successful groups to clean-up their oil spill. They usedvarious materials such as q-tips, cotton balls, coffee filters and paper towels. They also hadleaves and sticks in their environments, which surprisingly, they were able to clean rather well