Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's EBIT-I Electron Beam Ion Trap: A host facility for interns*

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) EBIT-I electron beam ion trap facility has been employed as a host to interns of many levels, including high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, as well as high school science teachers. While at LLNL's EBIT-I, interns are exposed to scientists from a diverse background involved in a variety of scientific fields, from high energy astrophysics, planetary physics and atomic physics, to the physics of burning plasmas and high-density laser plasmas. Interns are not only exposed to the daily lives of scientists at a national science facility, but also gain "hands on" experience by becoming active participants in one or more on-going experiments. An overview of the program will be presented.