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Scope and Contents Project LEARN (Laboratory Experience in Atmospheric Research at NCAR) was a series of summer institutes in which teachers worked directly with NCAR scientists in their laboratories, gaining first-hand experience in the process of scientific investigation. Teachers learned activity-based strategies that would engage students from ethnically and geographically diverse backgrounds in the excitement of scientific discovery. NCAR scientists and educators also traveled to rural areas to conduct...

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Article titled "Probing the Mystery of the Atmosphere," by Lawrence Lessing, published in the December 1961 issue of Fortune magazine, on the early history of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.