On November 21, 1997, GLOBE students at the Knight Center School for Applied Technology in Miami, Florida, provided GLOBE representatives from Denmark and Pakistan with an impressive demonstration of their GLOBE hydrology measurement procedures.

Under the leadership of GLOBE Teacher Miguel Germain, the high school students took their guests to a pier on the Miami River, just outside their school. The students demonstrated how they measure turbidity, water temperature, nitrates, and salinity. Each student had a specific measurement responsibility and worked carefully to follow the GLOBE protocol. The international guests, who had traveled to Miami for a GLOBE Training Workshop, were very impressed with the students' knowledge and their efforts to ensure data quality control.

In explaining why the School for Applied Technology decided to join GLOBE, Mr. Germain stressed the importance of having students involved in real science, rather than just reading about science in books. "The program is hands-on and allows the students to think of the environment and its significance to themselves. It's not just me giving it to them," Germain said.