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>> And we have here with us a couple
of folks that have been involved

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in the EarthKam project just recently.

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This is Frank Sanchez, and Luis Tamayo.

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They are teacher and student, respectively,
at Milstead Middle School here in town.

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And they just got finished going
through a program with EarthKam, right?

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>> Correct.

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>> Yes, ma'am.

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>> Well, Luis, how old are you?

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>> 12.

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on International Space Station, huh?

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>> Uh huh.

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>> That's really cool, right?

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>> Yeah.

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>> Well, what did you like about that?

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>> Well, I liked -- like, it's that
all controlled by students instead

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of being more, like, less students.

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We can control more, and it
feels, like, having the power.

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>> So how does it work?

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>> Well, basically we go on
line and reserve a mission time.

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And it goes through an application process,
and when the mission is going on we're allowed

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to send in a target sheet which coordinates
different areas we would like to see

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from the International Space Station.

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And obviously, we were in with about 150 other
schools, and they were all over the world.

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So that was fascinating, obviously.

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One of the drives.

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And we were excited about that.

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>> So how did it work for you, Luis, did you
get together with your class mates and talk

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about what you wanted to take a picture of?

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>> Yeah. Well, we were kind of like in a group,
deciding what we wanted to take pictures of.

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Then we finally decided to take.

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>> How did you decide, what did you talk about?

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>> Well, we were -- like -- we were
talking more, like, a[Inaudible] topic,

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oh, this is cool, this is not cool.

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This is cool, this is not cool.

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>> Well, I think we actually have some
of your photos here that we can show,

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that y'all were involved in picking out.

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This first one I think is Chile?

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>> Yes.

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>> Tell us about this.

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>> Well, I really like that picture.

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We all decided to pick that picture.

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It's showing the coast of Chile.

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I really think it's an interesting picture.

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>> Was there anything in
particular that you were thinking

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about when you chose to take one of Chile?

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>> For the land forms.

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We connected to social studies and
land form and geographical features,

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along with the science component.

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So that's really what drove our lesson.

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And Chile was obviously the coastline.

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And it's beautiful water, obviously the ocean.

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And you can see the differences in
the type of features that are there.

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So I thought it was an interesting choice.

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Obviously, we had other images to choose
from, but that one really stood out for us.

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>> Yeah. I think we've actually
got one other one that y'all took.

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This one is Alaska?

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>> Yes. Exactly.

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>> Tell us about this one.

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>> Well, Alaska, it's kind of special because
it's an -- in Canada, but it's part of the US.

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So it's -- some people get -- got
it confused with other places.

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But I was like, it's Alaska, it's Alaska.

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And I really wanted to get special picture.

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>> Yeah? So this is one --
that was one of your favorites?

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>> Right. It was one of my also,
because of the barrenness, and you know,

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the dichotomy between ocean, you
know, with that land form, is it ice,

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is it ocean, those kinds of things.

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And then the colors really pop, too.

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>> Yes, if nothing else it's
a beautiful photograph.

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>> It's a beautiful photograph.

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>> But I guess the idea is that kids
actually learn something from doing this.

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So can you help us, what do you as
a teacher see as the benefit of it?

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>> Definitely.

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Well, I was part of the middle school aerospace
scholars for two years, last year as well.

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And this is really how we
got started with EarthKam.

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Interest Sally Ride, her vision was
of course to involve the students,

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especially here in America, to really
take part in what's going on in --

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at the International Space Station
and just in space in general.

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So I figured what would be a better way to --

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what other than connecting it directly
to the International Space Station,

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how as a teacher can we drive
that, and drive our lessons.

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So technology, one, and then of
course the science behind it.

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And that's really what got is involved.

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I've also done some webcasts with Stem,

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and they've talked a lot and
used a lot of the images.

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So I figured how we could connect that without
having to wait for a Stem webcast all the time.

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How we can --

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>> Real quick for people
who don't know, what's Stem

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>> Stem is the science, technology,

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and educational through mathematics
and science, okay?

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And they have a webcast,
they do various programs

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through NASA, of course, and they do webcast.

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And the one they use a lot of
your images was view from the top.

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And it basically talked about
geological features.

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They were able to narrow down our
school, and they found working

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with International Space Station images
some of the before and after photos too.

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So it was a very specific webcast as opposed
to the general one we took part in EarthKam.

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>> You think you'll keep using this
program in your classroom or --

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>> Yes, we just missed the window for
the past mission, but the one coming

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up right before summer should
-- we take part in that.

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And this class will actually help us with that.

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And that will carry over to some of the
Stem webcasts that we will be doing,

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kind of similar to what we did last time and
we'll be able to converse about the images