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Once again, let LarsThorwald introduce you to a beautiful part of Pasadena you may never have seen: GEEK COLL... er, CAL TECH!
Look, we're all geeks in our own way: I feel like one every time I try and explain geocaching to someone. So we're sure you'll all feel at home while you're searching for GEEK COLLEGE MICRO in one of California's most beautiful centers of higher education.
Caltech is a small, coeducational university dedicated to exceptional instruction and research in engineering and science. The student body is composed of about 900 undergraduate and 1,100 graduate students who maintain a high standard of scholarship and intellectual achievement. With an outstanding faculty -- including several Nobel Laureates -- and such off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory, Caltech is one of the world's major research centers.
Or, to put it more personally: the high-powered geocaching community should feel right at home!
For you history buffs: in September 1891, Pasadena philanthropist Amos Throop rented the Wooster Block building in Pasadena for the purpose of establishing Throop University, the forerunner of Caltech. In November of that year, Throop University opened its doors to 31 students and a six-member faculty. Throop might have remained just a good local school had it not been for the arrival in Pasadena of astronomer George Ellery Hale. The first director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, Hale became a member of Throop's board of trustees in 1907, and envisioned molding it into a first-class institution for engineering and scientific research and education. Under his leadership Throop's transformation began.
By 1921, Hale had been joined by chemist Arthur A. Noyes and physicist Robert A. Millikan. These three men set the school, which by then had been renamed the California Institute of Technology, firmly on its new course. For the next 76 years, Millikan and his successors -- Lee DuBridge, Harold Brown, Marvin Goldberger, and Thomas Everhart -- led the Institute as it achieved preeminence in the scientific community. During this time programs were added in geology, biology, aeronautics, astronomy, astrophysics, the social sciences, computer science, computation and neural systems...
Yeah, okay. Neural systems are great... but what about geocaches?! No one planted any geocaches... until today!
In fact, despite Cal Tech's reputation for brain power - or maybe because of it - the campus is a great place for just sort of wandering around and zoning out. We took advantage of some of the beautiful landscaping for this cache: along the way you'll see several wonderful fountains and ponds where we spotted fish, bullfrogs, even turtles! There are a lot of mature, giant trees... which means you'll have to pick your spots for GPS coverage, but we're sure it will all work out for you in the end. This cache is a magnetized film canister. And, to relieve any concerns that you may have, you will need to do NO CRASHING THROUGH THE LANDSCAPING! Good luck!
And while you're at it, give our companion cache TOURNAMENT PARK VIRTUAL a visit. It's only a couple of blocks away!
Additional Hints
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