Center Director Jim Kennedy left talks to staff members of Immokalee Middle School in Naples Fla.

Center Director Jim Kennedy (left) talks to staff members of Immokalee Middle School in Naples, Fla., which is part of NASA’s Explorer School (NES) Program and teamed with Pine Ridge Middle School. Kennedy visited the school to share the vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. He is talking with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA’s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space. NES establishes a three-year partnership annually between NASA and 50 NASA Explorer Schools teams, consisting of teachers and education administrators from diverse communities nationwide.