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Sandia’s giving tree has many branches

December 22, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ employees have just completed the yearly Employee Caring Program.Sandia broke their giving record. Sandia employees and retirees have pledged $3.738 million to the United Way of Central New Mexico, making it the number on…

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Sandia’s microencapsulation project gives local entrepreneur warm glow

December 16, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Microencapsulation isn’t a new technology, but it’s always finding new applications. Familiar uses include the scratch-and-sniff perfume ads in magazines, certain time-release pharmaceuticals, and (perhaps mostly for an older generation) carbonless copy paper.

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Sandia Christmas campaign brings new shoes for needy school children

December 15, 2008 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 50 years ago two scientists at Sandia National Laboratories decided to buy shoes for needy children instead of exchanging gifts with one another. “Everyone was very enthusiastic about our idea,” says Sandia retiree John Haaland.

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Sandia’s giving tree has many branches

December 19, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Excitement fills the air as Sandia National Laboratories employees celebrate breaking their own Employee Caring Program giving record. Sandia employees and retirees have pledged $3.559 million to the United Way of Central New Mexico.

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Sandia fits needy kids with new shoes for Christmas

December 14, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Fifty-one years ago two Sandia National Laboratories scientists decided that instead of exchanging gifts with one another they would spend the money to benefit others less fortunate. They bought new shoes for needy children.

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Sandia’s ‘It’s the Write Thing to Do’ contest rewards three students with savings bonds

December 6, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Three students from Albuquerque’s traditional public high schools earned $2,000 U.S. Savings bonds in the fourth annual scholastic “It’s the Write Thing to Do” essay contest.

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Sandia/California named a fit business by the California Wellness Task Force

November 13, 2007 • LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Sandia National Laboratories’ California site has met the gold standard, at least according to the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness. The lab’s Preventive Health and Life Design Center (LDC) initiative has been honored by the task force...

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Sandia Forklift Rodeo highlights safety, accuracy

August 6, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia hosts the seventh annual Forklift Safety Rodeo, which highlights the skills of more than 85 forklift operators from Sandia, Kirtland Air Force Base, Honeywell, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Nineteen international science fair participants return to Albuquerque for special two-week research internship at Sandia

July 30, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Nineteen young scientists who earlier this summer participated in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) returned to Albuquerque yesterday to spend two weeks at Sandia National Laboratories as part of a special research internship.

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Sandia assists 293 small businesses in 2006

July 25, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia assisted 293 small businesses in 2006 with projects ranging from a kid’s car organizer to a radio frequency signal that can alert 85 percent to 90 percent of drivers that a first responder is approaching.

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Home for developmentally disabled children becomes site for Sandia arsenic water removal experiment

July 10, 2007 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Casa Angelica, a home for developmentally disabled children and young adults in Albuquerque’s South Valley, is the site of an innovative Sandia National Laboratories water treatment system known as “in tank filtration” designed to remove arsenic from...

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Sandia employees’ tradition of buying shoes for hundreds of school kids most needed this time of year

December 13, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In what has become a 50-year tradition, more than 500 local elementary school students will get new shoes this year during school outings thanks to donations from Sandia National Laboratories employees to the Lab’s annual Shoes for Kids campaign.

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An APS student, his own sneakers two sizes too big, found a pair of shoes that were just his size. He selected shoes that “look good on me.”

Sandia, APS, UNM collaborate to meet No Child Left Behind requirement

May 25, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Teachers from middle and elementary schools in Albuquerque and other parts of New Mexico will have the opportunity to build their science teaching skills this summer in an effort to meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirement for “highly qualified”...

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Sandia, University of Texas System unveil multi-faceted memorandum of understanding

February 10, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the multi-campus University of Texas System today announced an expanded relationship. The announcement came after the UT System Board of Regents unanimously approved a new memorandum of understanding between the System and...

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Sandia Labs essay contest ‘It’s the Write Thing To Do’ makes five high school winners $2,000 richer

December 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Five Albuquerque high school students have been awarded $2,000 worth of U.S. Savings Bonds as winners of the second annual “It’s the Write Thing To Do” essay contest, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories and Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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Sandia employees buy shoes for hundreds of school kids

December 14, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 500 local elementary school students are getting new shoes again this year thanks to donations from Sandia National Laboratories employees through the Labs’ annual Shoes for Kids campaign.

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Sandia partners with DOE in science education initiative

July 8, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Science Education Initiative announced today by U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham will have strong support from Sandia National Laboratories, which already has a long history of community, hands-on science learning programs.

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New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program helps 310 state businesses in 2002 program year

June 23, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories assisted 310 small businesses throughout New Mexico in 2002, helping to solve pressing technical problems ranging from how to detect and extract oil from the ground more efficiently to developing better packaging to prevent...

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Information session for small businesses wanting to become GSA Schedule suppliers

September 10, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Federal procurement entities are acquiring billions of dollars of goods and services through the General Services Administration’s GSA Schedule program.

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Summer workshop on school safety draws concerned educators to Dallas July 26-28

July 13, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Theft, vandalism, drugs, and violence on U.S. school campuses have principals, parents, and law enforcement officials wondering what they can do to make their schools safer for students during the coming school year.

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Sandian’s Web-based computational science textbook used in 100 schools

June 9, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Imagine a school in the 21st century where students carry no books and study from a virtual textbook.

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Albuquerque, Russian school children shed Cold War mentality in electronic-age pen-pal program

May 11, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Their parents spent their school-age years learning to mistrust Russians. But for the 19 second graders in Janet Sanchez's Petroglyph Elementary classroom, Russians aren't reason to "duck and cover." They're pen pals, friends, summer camp companions, perhaps.

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Sandia Teams With New Mexico Universities to Offer First-of-a-Kind Security Engineering Courses

July 3, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Floods. Terrorism. All four have potential to result in deadly catastrophes, yet only one is the product of human maliciousness. Anticipating and preventing tragedies caused by human intent has been a primary focus of Sandia National...

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A Study in School Security: Sandia Works With Belen High To Develop Security Program

May 1, 1996 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- With a blueprint of Belen High School and some understanding of security technologies, more than 150 students will work together this month to design the technology layout for improving security at their school.

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