Fermilab 50th Anniversary

Zoltan Gecse is in Lab C and talks about the Higgs boson discovery. Fermilab Open House at SiDet.

Most folks headed directly to the atrium to get tickets for Mr. Freeze or the 15th floor tour.

A member of the Fermilab Society of Women Engineers explains the beam pipe exhibit to a curious visitor.

Kevin Kuk introduces himself then welcomes them to the Silicon Detector Facility.

Eileen Crowley, left, and Patty McBride are the gatekeepers for entry to the CMS Remote Operations Center during the Open House.

SiDet Open House group picture before the crowds came.

Louis Suter presents a live video feed from the MINOS Near Detector Cavern to Open House visitors on the surface.

Michael Wesley talks to an Open House tour group about the Main Control Room.

I was at the Open House, see??

Sandra Lee is happy to be giving out Mr. Freeze tickets in the Wilson Hall atrium.

The initial crew of tour experts for the CMS Remote Operations Center East: Front row: Seyda Ipek with her new Higgs Boson tattoo; Pushpa Bhat; Kaori Maeshima; Jen Adelman-McCarthy. Back row: Richard Carrigan, Eileen Crowley, ____, and Patty McBride.

The orange route buses dropped off folks for the SiDet tours.

Guram Chlachidze explains the science behind the Fermilab logo during the Open House.

The Kindness Rocks project made it to Fermilab during Open House.

So it begins!

I dressed up my nails to match the theme of the day.

Hema Ramamoorthi, left, and Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer are ready for the Open House.

How to secure a really big tent Wilson Hall parking lot.

The a.m. crew at the Technical Campus ADA West tent prepare for visitors!

Don Lincoln talks to Open House tourists about CMS.

Taking a selfie with Reidar.

COOL!

Julius Borchert, Mary-Ellyn McCollum, Andrew McDaniel, Kimberly McDaniel, Maredith Stoffel, Sabina Aponte, Margaret LeKander, Gayle Millman, Wanda Newby, Leah Turner.

Wanda Newby keeps smiling as the crowds keep coming to buy Fermilab Open House t-shirts.

This little guy is smiling with excitement.

As the Open House tour of the Linac ends and visitors exited, this is the stunning view they were greeted with.

Escorts Stephanie Timpone and Gustavo Cancelo await their groups.

Sten Hansen talks about the Bubble Chamber at SiDet.

A young Fermilab fan (check out the t-shirt) examines the 3D-printed model of a magnet support at the Fermilab Society of Women Engineer's table at the STEM fair.

Young scientists enjoy the STEM fair at Fermilab's Open House.

Stage in the welcome tent and line of buses ready to pick up and welcome the visitors of Fermilab's 50th Open House

The South Pole Telescope station at SiDet, run by Brad Benson, have the folks fascinated!

Fermilab Open house SiDet tours

Open House SiDet tours

People come and go with a smile

Stations at SiDet for the Open House

Group photo after the Open House

Fermilab Open House at SiDet

Sabina Aponte and colleague work the t-shirt desk at the Open House.

Neutrino detector technologies seemed to capture this Open House guest's attention.

Andrew Norman leads a tour of Open House tourists in the Remote Operations Center West.

Rich Schmitt talks a little bit about dark matter.

Saturnino Villa finds a spot in the shade to get some relief from the heat.

Reidar Hahn prepares for the craziness of the day!

Line of buses ready to pick up and welcome the visitors of Fermilab's 50th Open House

Q&A time at the Fermilab Open House at SiDet

A group of workers — Colleen Yoshikawa in the middle — await the crowds who want to see Mr. Freeze in the auditorium.

At the Open House, a visitor takes a shot of the impressive Wilson Hall.

Reidar Hahn and Ian Krass capture the beginnings of the Open House in ROC West.

Fermilab Open House at SiDet, enjoying the photo booth

Pat Lukens talks about detectors at Fermilab.

The Wilson Hall atrium was packed with lunchers during the noon hour of Open House.

Open wide, hon!

Pano shot of the Open House SiDet tours.

Rick Ford chats with Open House attendees at the Fermilab Open House at SiDet.

Jen gives Nigel an "I love Higgs Bosons" temporary tattoo in ROC East.

Almost immediately after I took this photo a World War II poster "We Can Do It" by J. Howard Miller that was done for Westinghouse came to mind. Pictured here are Louise Suter, Anne Norrick, Laura Fields and Kanika Sachdev at the MINOS Building for the Open House.

The atrium is ready for all the folks who want Mr. Freeze tickets during the Open House.

Jerry Zimmerman, aka Mr. Freeze, did four shows during the Open House. And each one filled Ramsey Auditorium.

Alyssa Miller tells a group of Open House tourists about the ins and out of the Main Control Room.

Alyssa Miller tells an Open House tour group about the Recycler and the Main Injector.

Mike Crisler talks about the history of the Bubble Chamber.

"Make sure that's in the background," said Jodi Coghill and Helen Szuba, referring to one of Fermilab's famous sculptures, Tractricious.

The Bubble Chamber was known as the Bubble to many of the folks.

Live video feed from MINOS Underground

A boy poses for his mom to get a picture in front of one of the Fermilab Linac's 7835 power amplifier tubes during the Open House.

Trevor Butler of the Linac Group tells the Open House tourists about the equipment in the Linac.

Cameras everywhere, it was great!

Fermilab Open house SiDet tours

Look at me, mom!

Kevin Kuk welcomes and escorts a group to the first station, The Bubble!

Juan Estrada talks a little about the Dark Energy Camera and CCDs.

Etta Johnson decided to enhance her orange attire for the Open House.

Information tent ... handing out freebies!

In line to board the bus and start the tour during the Open House

Enjoying the beauty of Wilson Hall while waiting for the 50th Anniversary Open House to begin.

The auditorium stage is set for Mr. Freeze during the Open House.

Meiqin Xiao applies a Higgs boson tattoo to the hand of an Open House tourist in the ROC East.

Elizabeth Alvarez, the better half to AD engineer Matt Alvarez, and her baby are enjoying the Open House. Well, at least Beth is.

Hanover Park Fire Department cooling mist station

Panoramic shot of guests in line to enter Fermilab's 50th Open House

Donna uses these beach balls to share fascinating info at the Open House.

Giorgio Bellettini talks a little about the top quark discovery and the Tevatron.

Kyimoi Seiya and Edgar prepare to put up the welcome mat for the Linac tours.

Gaston Gutierrez talks about the Dark Energy Camera, one of the stations in the SiDet tours.

Gary Teafoe gowns up to work in the Lab C cleanroom.

A young woman shows great enthusiasm for the displays in the Wilson Hall atrium during the Open House.

Women Engineers booth's morning shift awaits visitors to the Chicagoland STEM Fair.

The Fermilab Society of Women Engineers, or fSWE, booth at the Chicagoland STEM Fair is ready for visitors.

The very first tour of the Bubble Chamber for the Open House at SiDet.

Fermilab firemen Greg Hansen and Eliseo Anaya man the first aid station.

Fermilab engineer Mayling Wong-Squires answers questions for a group gathered at the Fermilab Society of Women Engineer's table at the STEM fair.

Fermilab Open House at one of the SiDet stations

From the Neutrino Campus portion of the Open House

I was a volunteer bus tour guide at the Fermilab's 50th Anniversary Open House. I met a lot of people and I talked a lot. It was hot all day but it was fun! Me, the tour guide, and my 79-year-old bus driver Tom at the Fermilab's 50th Anniversary Open House on September 23!

I was a volunteer bus tour guide today at Fermilab's 50th Anniversary Open House. I met a lot of people and I talked a lot. It was hot all day but it was fun!

Me and fellow volunteer Matt Alvarez!

Me and the Red Bus tour guides coordinator, Greg Gilbert.

I met Duane and Shirley Bartelt. Duane was born in Weston, Illinois, now Fermilab! He was 10 years old when the original residents of Weston relocated to Dixon, Illinois. He also told me that the old residents still have annual reunion at the Kuhn's barn. It was a fun day!

Maxine Hronek and dummy normally employed by Radiation Safety for a search-and-secure routine, but she borrowed it for use during Open House.

"Fermilab 50th Anniversary Open House Guests @ MINOS Building" by Gordon Koizumi The number of 50th Anniversary Open House guests at the MINOS building swelled in the afternoon. People everywhere! These two young boys were too short to see the NuMI horn that Debbie Harris was talking about since grown-ups blocked that view. Instead, their attention was focused on a different display partially behind the camera. The display behind the camera seemed to have caught the attention, especially of the younger of the two.

A future Fermilab employee examines a 360-degree virtual view of Fermilab at the Open House.

Families flock to the Fermilab Open House at SiDet.

For the first time in years, the Eola gate was open to traffic!

This cool banner of the CMS detector drew people in.

Sandra Biedron talks to visitors about Enrico Fermi and his connection to Fermilab.

These two stop and examine the film.

Fermilab engineer Lucy Nobrega explains accelerator components to a group of children at the Fermilab Society of Women Engineer's table at the STEM fair.

End of the Open House tour now waiting for the Orange Route bus.

Everybody wants to see Mr. Freeze today.

Direction signs were all around Wilson Hall for the Open House.

Gonzalo Diaz Bautista of the University of Rochester shows how the light fibers in NOvA work to tourists at the Open House.

A family tries to decide exactly which Fermilab 50th anniversary t-shirts to buy.

Dave Johnson, in the Main Control Room, knows how to wear the orange of the tour guides.

Tourists at the Open House hear a little bit about the Dark Energy Camera.

Computer expert at the Open House

The CMS photo booth was loved by kids of all ages.

This young girl is enjoying the Open House at Fermilab, especially the photo booth!

Folks love a photo booth!

Cindy Joe points out the camera location underground where live video feed is taking place at the MINOS Near Detector Building.

After a long, hot day of celebration, it is good to relax and get to know peers from across the lab!

Tippy toe and say cheese please.

Sheila Cisko checks in with Facebook — I am at the Fermilab Open House.

Anadi Canepa, of Fermilab's CMS group, talks about CERN to a group of Open House tourists.

One visitor came all the way from California to experience the Open House.

T-shirt group works to fill orders. #Fermilab 50th

Busses are ready to roll!

Pat Poll, on the right, will greet folks getting off the Orange Route bus to tour the Silicon Detector Facility, and the Bubble, as they called it.s

A souvenir of the 15-foot Bubble Chamber and an image of particle interaction first tracks were handed out at the Fermilab Open House at SiDet.

Steve Gould was brimming over with enthusiasm as he explained what he does at Fermilab.

Bison up close!

The bison experts

Watching the bison come up to the fence before the crowds came

The Ask-A-Scientist representatives are busy talking to Open House attendees.

Have a question, ask a scientist.

Scientists are ready to answer questions at the Open House.

Artur Apresyan talks a little about the Higgs boson discovery.

Artist-in-residence Jim Jenkins demonstrates the eddy current sculpture at Open House.

Jim Jenkins, 2017 artist-in-residence, and Lindsay Olson, 2015 artist-in-residence, work at the Open House.

Tanya Levshina shows how the eddy current works with the sculpture.

Gaston Gutierrez talks about the Dark Energy Camera, one of the stations in the SiDet tours.

Is everything OK on the home front? Email is clear, so I think we are ready to start the Open House.

Alan talks a bit about the history of the Bubble Chamber.

CY Tan of the Linac Group did an excellent job describing the Linac to the Open House tourists. He was pretty funny!

Karl Williams was so busy with his presentation during the Open House that he had no idea I was taking his picture.

K-9 unit taking checks things out!

Christine points out some interesting info from the film that records the particle interaction from the Bubble Chamber.

This sight can bring terror to the hearts of students.

Wow, they are still coming. This is amazing!