NASA MEDIA ADVISORY M00-32 February 17, 2000 SCHOOL CHILDREN USING INTERNET TO OBSERVE EARTH WITH SPACE SHUTTLE CAMERA NOTE TO MEDIA: LOCAL STORY ANGLES FOR SHUTTLE MISSION STS-99 Middle-school students from 21 states and three foreign countries are participating in EarthKAM, a NASA-sponsored program that enables middle school students to take photographs of the Earth from a camera aboard the Space Shuttle. During missions, students work collectively and use interactive World Wide Web pages to target images and investigate the Earth from the unique perspective of space. The University of California at San Diego houses the EarthKAM Mission Operations Center (MOC). For more information on EarthKAM, and a collection several hundred photographs taken during this mission, see: http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/ The following schools are participating in the EarthKam observations on STS-99: CALIFORNIA Valley Junior High School, Carlsbad, CA Challenger Middle School, Escondido, CA Pacific Union School, Redwood, Fieldbrook CA Irvine Unified School District Lakeside Middle School, Irvine, CA Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, Irvine, CA Sierra Vista Middle School, Irvine, CA South Lake Middle School, Irvine, CA Venado Middle School, Irvine, CA Vista Verde Elementary School, Irvine, CA Olive Peirce Middle School, Ramona, CA AG Bell Junior High School, San Diego, CA Gompers Middle School, San Diego, CA Marston Middle School, San Diego, CA M.L. King Middle School, San Diego, CA COLORADO West Middle School, Colorado Springs, CO FLORIDA Ronald McNair Middle School, Cocoa, FL Space Coast Middle School, Cocoa, FL INDIANA South Ripley Elementary School, Versailles, IN KANSAS California Trail Junior High School, Olathe, KS Frontier Trail Junior High School, Olathe, KS Indian Trail Junior High School, Olathe, KS Pioneer Trail Junior High School, Olathe, KS Santa Fe Trail Junior High School, Olathe, KS LOUISIANA Clearwood Junior High School, Lacombe, LA Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, Slidell, LA MAINE Brunswick Junior High School, Orr's Island, ME MARYLAND Southern High School, Baltimore, MD MASSACHUSETTS Diamond Middle School, Acton, MA F.A. Day Middle School, Arlington, MA McCarthy Middle School, Chelmsford, MA Parker Middle School, Chelmsford, MA Jonas Clarke Middle School, Lexington, MA MISSOURI Cassville Middle School, Cassville, MO Warrensburg Middle School, Warrensburg, MO Carthage Junior High School, Webb City, MO NEBRASKA Harrison Elementary, Omaha, NE Kiewit Middle School, Omaha, NE McMillan Magnet Center, Omaha, NE Russell Middle School, Omaha, NE Skinner Magnet Center, Omaha, NE NORTH CAROLINA Davis Drive Middle School, Apex, NC Dunn Middle School, Dunn, NC North Carolina State University, Fuquay-Yarina, NC Pine Hall Elementary School, Pine Hall, NC Magellan Charter School, Raleigh, NC East Lee Middle School, Sanford, NC Wake Forest-Roleville Middle School, Wake Forest, NC Cedar Creek Middle School, Youngsville, NC OHIO F. D. Roosevelt Middle School, Cleveland, OH OKLAHOMA Kenneth Cooper Middle School, Oklahoma City, OK Mayfield Middle School, Oklahoma City, OK Putnam City Schools, Oklahoma City, OK Western Oaks Middle School, Oklahoma City, OK SOUTH CAROLINA Drayton Hall Middle School, Charleston, SC James Island Middle School, Charleston, SC Porter-Gaud Lower School, Charleston, SC Hanahan Elementary, Goose Creek, SC College Park Middle School, Hickory, SC Belle Hall Elementary, Isle of Palms, SC Cario Middle School, Mt. Pleasant, SC SOUTH DAKOTA Patrick Henry Middle School, Baltic, SD TENNESSEE John Trotwood Moore Middle School, Nashville, TN TEXAS Kimbrough Middle School, Mesquite, TX Seabrook Intermediate School, Seabrook, TX Webster Intermediate School, Webster, TX VIRGINIA Point Option, Gloucester, VA Davis Middle School, Hampton, VA Yorktown Middle School, Hayes, VA Hickory Middle School, Norfork, VA Jones Magnet Middle School, Norfolk, VA WEST VIRGINIA Warwood Middle School, Wheeling, WV WISCONSIN Spring Harbor Environmental, Madison, WI INTERNATIONAL FRANCE "École Nationale de Chimie, Physique, Biologie," Paris, France GERMANY Maria-Sibylla-Merian Gymnasium, Germany Sankt Ursula-Gymnasium Bruhl, Germany JAPAN Ino Junior High School, Japan Kansai Soka Jr/Sr. High School, Japan Meikei Junior High School, Japan Yamamuro Jr. High School, Japan