While the rig is down for repair again, Twin Falls High School Honors Earth Science Class of Jo Dodd visits Project Hotspot. After a brief introduction and orientation talk from Chief Scientist Lisa Morgan, the students get a lesson in wire line core drilling from DOSECC Operations Manager Beau Marshall. Then into the Core Logging Tent to view core from 914.4 meters below the surface, and learn how we log and study core to understand the deep earth. A good time was had by all.. Additionally, Eric Christiansen and Richard from BYU spend a few days at the USU Core Lab acquiring initial analyses of the Kimama drill core using a portable XRF unit. They constructed a core stand to hold core over the instrument during analysis, set so that the business end of the X-ray tube is almost but not quite touching the sample. The data so far look very good and indicate that we have Craters of the Moon type flows at depth in the drill hole.. We hope to start coring again by the end of this week.. More to come!