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<title>A Meeting Between Scientist and Student-Pen Pal</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Sharuga]]></dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For all scientists wanting to make positive impacts and promote STEM fields to our future generations, let me tell you about a great program called “Letters to a Pre-Scientist” (http://www.prescientist.org/). This program sets up scientists as pen pals with students from under-resourced communities in order to inspire and empower them to pursue STEM careers. I highly encourage others to join it! </p>
<p>This past year I joined this awesome program and received my first letter from my new pen pal a couple weeks before I came out to sea on the <em>JOIDES Resolution</em>. There was a bit of a delay of when I received my letter because of the wildfires where I live in California. But when I returned home after evacuation orders were lifted and mail was being delivered once again, I received a happy surprise! As it turns out, my pen pal is from a school not too far from where I live, which is kind of cool. </p>
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My first letter from my new pen pal.</p>
<p>My pen pal really likes the ocean and ocean animals, so it was super easy to write lots back – I even had to remind myself not to write a whole novel! I immediately wrote a letter to send back (with ocean-themed stickers, of course) and put it in the mail. I now eagerly await another letter from her when I return home from the <em>JOIDES Resolution</em> in the New Year.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="https://joidesresolution.org//wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-300x134.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="134" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-25379" srcset="https://joidesresolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-300x134.jpg 300w, https://joidesresolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-768x342.jpg 768w, https://joidesresolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-11-07-22.40.22a-1024x457.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><br />
My first letter back to my pen pal.</p>
<p>While out at sea during Expedition 372, I had a unique opportunity to work with Letters to a Pre-Scientist to bring our <em>JOIDES Resolution</em> live broadcasts into the classrooms of several schools that participate in their program. One of those classes was the one my pen pal is in. It was business-as-usual for most of the broadcast – ship tour, scientists talking about our research, etc. – until the very end. But in the last few minutes, I was able to meet my pen pal face-to-face via the broadcast video. It’s not every day you get to meet your pen pal, especially when you’re literally in the middle of the ocean halfway around the world!</p>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://joidesresolution.org//wp-content/uploads/2017/12/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m06s657a-300x250.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="250" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-25367" srcset="https://joidesresolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m06s657a-300x250.jpg 300w, https://joidesresolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/vlcsnap-2017-12-17-10h31m06s657a.jpg 430w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><br />
My pen pal (in her classroom) waving hello to me…</p>
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…and me (wearing a headset that we use for the broadcasts) on the <em>JOIDES Resolution</em>. </p>
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