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Show Students enjoy Summer Science School years. Environment trips for these youngsters included trips of interest to Zion National Park, Bryce National Park, Panguitch Fish Hatchery, Oeryade Falls, where drougH con- ditions were stressed to the students. Also stressed was the seriousness of forest fires started by careless campers. The students were shown evidence of a past forest fire near the Movie Ranch Estates on Cedar Mountain. Final field trip of the year took the students to the Cedar City Airport where the Forest Service personnel showed them fire-fighting aircraft and equipment. The use of aerial deliverance of fire retardant to fire areas helps cool forest fires to assist workers below to control the blaze. At the conclusion of the Summer Session the younger students made scrapbooks of what they had learned while the older group made an interest mural. ; . . . x"' fain . SUMMER SESSION. One of a variety of field trips made by South Elementary Summer Science group included the fire fighting plane operated by the Forest Service. The group learned how it empties fire retardant over a forest fire and assists in fire fighting efforts throughout the hot and dry summer months. Excitement ran high this year as once more Summer Science students at the South Elementary participated in a variety of projects and adventures, learning more about energy and the environment. en-vironment. With an enrollment of 72 students, instructors Linda Wright, Ann Young and Gary Roper, completed a very interesting, fun filled four weeks. The first half of the class was devoted to types of energy and how they help in daily lives. The first field trip was based on geothermal energy and included a trip to Enterprise. En-terprise. There they witnessed wit-nessed a geothermal well in which the water comes out at 180 degrees. It is then cooled down in three separate ponds until it is cold enough to be used in irrigation sprinkling systems. Students learned that geothermal energy is important to scientists as they are trying to fing out how this hot water can be used and converted to energy. California-Pacific Utilities Co. introduced the students to three types of electircal generating systems-diesel generators, steam generating at the mouth of Cedar Canyon, through burning of coal and hydroelectric generating systems. Fossil fuels, coals and petroleum, were studied next by the group, with a trip to Cedar Canyon to the old coal mines where fossils and coal are proof that Cedar City was inundated with water creating the necessary vegetation to provide for coal deposits. Dave Evans showed the group through his petroleum plant telling the different byproducts-plastics, nylons, etc. Dr. Wesley Larson of Southern Utah State College gave a demonstration of a cobalt raidation machine that can preserve food for |