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SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Student Workshop on Low-Frequency Radio
High school and college students interested in low-frequency radio technology are invited to attend a workshop tomorrow to learn about the subject and about how they can win scholarships for related radio-wave projects they create.
The event is sponsored by the group INSPIRE, which is a joint project of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium and co-founder Bill Taylor. The workshop will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave. NW. The event is open to all, but organizers request a prior call to 202-547-1364.
INSPIRE also organizes a scholarship program for high school and college students interested in very-low-frequency radio experiments, with winners eligible for grants from $2,000 to $5,000. Proposals for the contest are due by Feb. 28.
-- Marc Kaufman
SMITHSONIAN
Flooding Prompts Closure of Postal Museum
Plumbing problems forced the Smithsonian National Postal Museum to close yesterday, and officials were not sure whether it would reopen today, spokeswoman Allison Gallaway said.
Gallaway said there had been flooding in the public spaces of the museum, at 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE. The museum receives about 550,000 visitors a year.
-- Sue Anne Pressley Montes
GOVERNMENT
Five City Workers Are Honored
Five D.C. government employees were honored for their work last night at George Washington University by the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
The honorees were Anthony Pompa, deputy chief financial officer; John Joseph Brooks, recreation specialist; Sandy Farber, extension agent for the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources; Joy Phillips, associate director in the Office of Planning; and Darryl Webster, a public school social worker. Each received $7,500 and a trophy.
-- David Nakamura
