White Sands Missile Range for a week to receive hands-on instruction in science and engineering in the Army Research Lab’s (ARL) educational program: Gains in Mathematics and Science. The goal of the GEMS program is to encourage students to pursue further education in the sciences by exposing them to the various scientific fields that the Army uses to develop new systems or support testing.In addition to receiving instruction from scientists and engineers, the students spent time with soldiers and advanced systems and equipment, such as high speed cameras, infrared imagers and ARL’s electromagnetic vulnerability assessment facility, a facility equipped with special rooms that can block out or isolate electromagnetic waves.Read more from Las Cruces Sun-News.