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The School for Applied Technology, Miami, FL, United States
12 February 1998
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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.