At the invitation of Corbin High School, GLOBE was pleased to host a Teacher Training Workshop February 4-7, 1997, at the Center for Rural Development in Somerset, Kentucky. The days were long, but the time was well spent learning about investigations, protocols, remoting sensing, satellite images and the GLOBE Web Space. Workshop participants included teachers from six schools in Kentucky - Pulaski Elementary and Northern Middle School in Somerset; Central Primary and Corbin High School in Corbin; Pine Knot Elementary in Pine Knot, and Ward Chapel Elementary in Middlesboro. The coordinator of the GLOBE program in the United Kingdom, Mr. Andy Tasker, also attended in order to get ideas for initiating the program in his country. Representatives from the NASA Educational Resource Center at Stennis Space Center and from Spalding University in Louisville, KY also took part in the training to formulate a plan for supporting GLOBE activities in Mississippi and in Kentucky.

Here are Pulaski Elementary teachers Jan Randall and Rhonda Elliott, ready to go to work in the state-of-the-art computer lab at the Kentucky Center for Rural Development. In this lab, participants learned how to enter student-collected data and send it to scientists via the internet. Also, a program called Multispec was used to manipulate satellite images and determine ground cover.

The GLOBE team! (left to right) Jean Fitch, Peggy Foletta, Sheila Yule, Vince Hurley, Cyndie Henzel, Skip Hopkinson, and Tony Murphy.

GLOBE teachers at Pulaski Elementary got right to work with their students, beginning with cloud cover and cloud type. The students in Mrs. Elliott's class were extremely excited about being junior scientists and helping real scientists learn about our environment! Below is a picture of them taken on a very good day for sky watching!

Special thanks to Betty Alexander of Pulaski Elementary for design of this web page.