When it comes to educational programming, Mississippi State's Television Center gets around. The center, which has been instrumental in working with the Public Broadcasting System to broadcast educational programs from space and from Antarctica, this summer was a player in broadcasts from the Mars Pathfinder mission.
Television center director David Hutto, along with Ralph Olivieri, Mike Godwin, and Scott Lewis, traveled to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., last July to provide the broadcast link between the Pathfinder team and major science museums around the country.
They worked side by side with television crews from around the world. Taking the broadcast feed from NASA, the Mississippi State crew mixed expert comment with behind-the-scenes shots to develop a program that also will be broadcast by NASA Television and distributed by the PBS teacher support network to schools nationwide.
"The programs are designed to connect young students with real scientists, doing things in real time," said Hutto. "It's a way to introduce middle school students to science."
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