A host and a team of young reporters take students on a journey of discovery to explore the mysteries of Planet Earth. Students visit a lab where Insect Olympians jump, run and race for science. They learn how Biomechanics, the study of motion in living things, helps build robots of the future. Viewers learn how to build a virtual bug collection using digital images and the Internet. Frogs around the world are disappearing and no one knows why.
Viewers meet a scientist who enlists their help to find the answers.
Homework takes on a new meaning as young computer whizzes in San Rafael create 3D images. Viewers learn how they can volunteer computer skills to help out in their community. Students see how skills in computer design can help one obtain a job. Kids take Jane Goodall s 35 years of chimp research and use multimedia to create a Virtual Chimp. Viewers visit the wilds of Africa without leaving their desks.