Ultimately, the goals of the program are to help students reach higher levels of achievement in science and math, raise environmental awareness and increase our scientific understanding of the earth. In the long run, we will try to standardize IDL as the graphics engine. Each school can access the data it has submitted and check data sets from other sources. She has been working with schools on islands around the Pacific for nearly five years.
Teachers are also involved, of course.
Recently, the program entered its second year.