January 22, 2020
![At NOAA Kids Day, the NOAA family was invited to bring their kids to work at the Silver Spring, Maryland, campus on April 25, 2019. The National Weather Service brought a Van de Graaff machine, an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an insulated column. This creates very high electric potentials, and is used to teach about electricity, or in this case, lightning strikes.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_650/public/legacy/image/2020/Jan/kidsday2019_darker_version2.png?itok=Fpf99pMe)
January 22, 2020
![Students at Lupelele Elementary School in Pago Pago, American Samoa worked together to keep their campus clean of litter through campus cleanups.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_650/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/lupeleleschool_2.jpg?itok=a0T5fyv9)
December 20, 2019
![GOES-17 GeoColor view of the Northern Hemisphere, Feb. 9, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_650/public/legacy/image/2019/Dec/GOES17_GeoColor_NH_20190209.jpg?itok=SxvimAzf)
November 21, 2019
![High school teacher Ben Graves received funding from NOAA Planet Stewards to develop a solar energy training course. His students designed and installed the 2.4 kW solar array to power the science wing of their school.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_650/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/BenGraves_PlanetStewardsSolarPanels1.jpg?itok=mz6R4F_A)
November 19, 2019
![Teacher at Sea alumni rowing a long boat in the San Diego Bay.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_650/public/legacy/image/2019/Nov/southwesttasaws2.jpg?itok=0gFDPVpV)