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Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, 19 Tehachapi students from Valley Oaks Charter School, who have been studying nanotechnology as part of the preparation for a Lego Robotics competition, had the opportunity to go on a one-day NanoQuest. “Nano” comes from the Greek word “Nanos,” meaning "dwarf." This prefix is used in the metric system to mean one billionth. Under the organization of Angela Berenstein these local students spent a Saturday in the science department on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. This campus is home to one of the 13 clean rooms in the United States. Their day at UCSB consisted of informative lectures on the relevance of nanotechnology in the world around us as well as the instruments and machines used in nanotechnology. Students learned about “Buckyballs,” named for visionary engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic sphere. Buckyballs are strong,...
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