Thanks Tami. Yes these students have the remarkable capacity to stay positive. They are an inspiration to us. Do show this to your students! I'm sure it will spark an interesting discussion about what they have observed during the pandemic, too.

Hi Kevin, your comment " there was a lot less noise" really touched me. As we all try to see a silver lining in this epic time, the opportunity to be able to be better listeners, and to be able to cut through the noise, is certainly a positive and hopefully will carry over throughout our lifetimes.

Hello Julie, Thank you for your kind remarks.The video you are seeing here was cut down to the required 3 minutes maximum for this Showcase.  You way you wish you could see more. Well, you can at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMyb5Koq7E&amp... Here your will see a wider range of students and their responses. 

Laura, Thanks for your interest. This question was put to students during the pandemic for a longer video to be shown at our virtual 2020 GLOBE Annual Meeting last July. We reached out to our teachers worldwide and asked them to convey our request to students. We received over a hundred responses. These are just a few of them! No, we did not get the students talking to each other back then, but this project did give rise to our Student Vloggers project. We now, through additional outreach, have identified a cohort of 12 students from all our 6 regions, worldwide, who are sending us regular video feeds about the GLOBE research they are engaged in and also sharing a bit about their lives and schools. We post a new student vlog every Wednesday.  We have a monthly zoom call where we get the students talking to each other and it is really quite delightful. You can see the student vlogs here and if you subscribe to our YouTube channel (also here) you will be notified when a new student vlog shows up on Wednesdays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN7KFWATp78&amp...

Yes, a much-needed dose of positivity, and even more rewarding to see this kind of international unity around these important ecological challenges. Also great to hear that the students were able to enter into dialogue with each other through your monthly calls.

Bridina, Those are big questions! The GLOBE Program is an international science and education program that engages students and citizen scientists in 125 countries in meaningful research about Earth. Teachers can get trained in the protocols that guide students through an understanding of the Earth system through local workshops, or through online eTraining. From the knowledge they obtain from the protocols, students then create their own self-directed research into topics often related to their own local communities. Students can enter their research projects in our annual International Virtual Science Symposium and receive input from professional scientists and STEM professionals. The general public can become involved too, by downloading the free and really cool GLOBE Observer App to submit measurements of trees, clouds, landcover, mosquitoes... There are so many ways to become involved in The GLOBE Program and with the huge worldwide GLOBE community! Read more about GLOBE at www.globe.gov .Thank you for your questions.

Thank you Danielle. Gotta love our young people! They give us hope for the future.

Thanks Lowell students! We'll be in touch with your teacher Ms. Stapert. Looking forward to knowing more about Climate Club DC and yes, lets work together!

HI David, Please see the reply to Bridina above for a basic understanding of how The GLOBE Program works. And yes we are all about providing the tools that students can use to build from their observations to learn more and (for kids in middle school and high school) to engage in research activities that allow them to pursue their own particular interests. We celebrated our 25th Anniversary in 2020... and during the pandemic, with so many students in lockdown, we posed the question "What changes are you observing in nature" just to get them thinking about what was going on outside the confines of their homes and to remind them that observation is the first step in the scientific process. The videos that came in were very touching.. This version you see here is the short 3-minute version just for this Showcase. The longer video can be viewed on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMyb5Koq7E&amp...   

Also, getting back to our 25th Anniversary... we have, over the years, build a huge international network and we encourage collaboration across borders... for international research campaigns ( often involving participation in NASA Earth-observing satellite missions) and for local and regional campaigns as well. Students and teachers meet at annual meetings and at our every-few-years GLOBE Learning Expeditions (GLEs) and if you want to know more about the opportunity to travel internationally to join a GLOBE event, see this video too that shows the last GLE, in 2018, in Ireland.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSbHax79PZE&amp...

Thank you for your questions, David, and read more about The GLOBE Program at www.globe.gov

Thanks Jan.  Congrats on 25 years!  That really is an accomplishment!  I'll have a look!

Thank you John. Your words mean a lot. You've been such a key person in the history of GLOBE. Good to hear from you.

April, So good to know that you are interested in joining the globe community! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you in the process. Write to globecommunications@ucar.edu

Zach, as you know ( and i know having seen your video too) that getting kids to take their knowledge from local to global is really transformative for them and good for all of us. Thanks for checking in!

Jacqueline, I love your project too! and your video was very powerful. Thanks for sharing! Also yes...except for some areas in which teachers reported serious trouble carrying on during the pandemic (understandable), I do think that we have experienced a very high level of student engagement overall. We had 242 projects submitted to our International Virtual Science Symposium this year from 20 countries and over 1 million data reported from individuals, mainly using our mobile app The GLOBE Observer.