The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, NM, served as the home base for a high-technology weekend for Troop 285. The places visited included:

The Very Large Array of radio telescopes

The Waldo-Graphic lead-zinc-silver underground mine (now a teaching facility)

The NMT Astronomy Observatory (for a really close look at Comet Hale-Bopp)

The EMRTC Energetic Materials Research Facility - over 100,000 acres of laboratories surrounding M Mountain

The NM Bureau of Minesand Mineral Resources Mineral Museum

Tons of basketball and other sports in the NMT gymnasium (our bunk house, too)

EMRTC Explosives Research Center	Very Large Array Antenna with Hale-Bopp Comet
Amethyst from NMBMMR Mineral Museum	NMT Etscorn Observatory