Abstract
A major goal of the Laser Electron Accelerator Project (LEAP) is to perform an experiment that clearly demonstrates laser acceleration in a dielectric loaded vacuum. The experiment is being carried out at the SCA-FEL facility at Stanford University which provides a 30 MeV electron beam that has been propagated through the LEAP line successfully. The energy spectrometer has been calibrated, the laser transport line is near completion and the dielectric accelerator cell is being assembled. We expect to perform our first attempt to observe laser driven acceleration in the summer of 1998. The design of the experiment is discussed and the expected results are presented.