M E W S BY THE MINISTER FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

N.D.4

COMPUTER SCHOOL FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

More than 60 selected high school students will be

introduced to science computing in a summer school at Lucas

Heights during the week 17 to 21 January, 1972. The course

will include lectures, tutorial discussions, films, demonstrations

and experiments involving the Australian Atomic Energy

Commission's computers and other equipment. Commission experts

will explain various aspects of mathematics,  and practical

applications in the laboratories will show how mathematics and

computers are related to reactor physics and other Commission

research..

The Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) said -  .

today that the school had been organised by the Commission at its

Lucas Heights Research Establishment in order to encourage Â·

students interested in the use of computers..

Teachers in Sydney metropolitan high schools were asked

to nominate students with an interest in mathematics or science

who were about to enter sixth form. From the 300 applicants

from 70 schools, the Commission selected over 60 students, this

being a suitable complement for a course in which all students

could actively participate.

CANBERRA.

14 January, 1972

