It is co-produced by the Hawaii Department of Education and KHET, Hawaii Public Television and has been producing distance learning series for eight years. KidScience programs are delivered via satellite to PBS stations, cable consortiums, school districts and individual schools. During the 1999 school year, programming was broadcast in 24 states with an estimated audience of one million students. Programs are broadcast live, but receiving sites use both live and taped versions of the broadcasts. Three different sites are connected for live telephone interaction during each of the programs.
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Each Program within the Series is 60 minutes long. All broadcasts require the use of RealPlayer. If you do not have RealPlayer installed please click here to find out how to obtain it. Otherwise click here to view the broadcast. I anticipate that Dr. Sylvia Earle or Dr. Steve Gittings of the Sustainable Seas Expeditions will most likely have a chance to go into more detail about the condition of the coral reefs where they were diving in the DeepWorker 2000 submersible during the mission.