Show Date: April 20, 2005
Peter Melyan for the Marianas Variety

THE STAR LADY, X-FACTOR AND CHALLENGING THE FUTURE

Inventions, Improvements and Achievements are important part of all cultures. Some cultures accept them more than others and especially where gender is concerned. Todays show will introduce you to four ladies who took the challenge and won or competed for national awards for their efforts in Education and community work.

You will also meet a young man who challenged the system and won the NASA Aeronautics and Space Administration's Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program. How did Neeraj challenge the system? He was suppose to go to Space Camp as the winner of the Guam Science Fair. Neeraj, however insisted on going to the International Science Fair and that helped eventually to lead him to the NASA Program award. Nagarajan asked that Dr. Muniappan be recognized as his mentor and helped him develop his project and apply for the NASA Program. Neeraj is an 11th grader at JFK High School and plays in the Band as well as working on science projects and school.

Today's show will also present a lady that took the challenge to consider inventions, improvements and definitely achievement. Who is that lady? If you listen to The Deep or read the column Starry Starry Night you will have heard of Pam Eastlick. If you read the Mariana Variety Every Wednesday you will also know that this column is usually written by Pam.

Today, we the deep panel would like to introduce you to Pam Eastlick and also invite you to listen to Pam tell us a little about her adventures and achievements. Pam was born in a small country town Lebanon Missouri. Like Abe Lincoln she went to a one room school and graduated from high school. After three semesters of college she got married and moved to Michigan, California and then followed her husband to Thailand. Dependents were not encouraged to go with their husbands, but that didn't stop Pam. She literally rocked Thailand while singing with a Thai rock band and traveling all over the country. Next she was off to Vietnam with the same rock band and even met Charlie under fire and almost lost it in a thunderstorm. She remarried a computer tech and went back to USA and then to DAN DAN Tracking station on Guam. This was with NASA. Pam got most of her school education on Guam her BA and MA and then went on to be the Star Lady. Want to know how she became the Star Lady?

Tune into our show and find out how she became the star lady. Broken equipment, seminars and more. Its a wonderful story full of cats, books computers and as Pam says. It aint over yet.

After meeting the young man receiving the NASA award President Bush will introduce our next guests. Actually, we hope to have Ms. Holly Luganob as our guest but as she is meeting the president either on Saturday or Sunday she might not be on Guam in time for the show. We extended the invitation to her principal but she said she was busy with the president. What an honor.

We had three teachers compete for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teachers program. Ms. Luganob was one of 150 teachers to receive the award. We hope to ask her how she will spend the $10,000.00 dollar award and what led her to her winning the award. Her school Ordot Chalan Pago and her principal are very proud of her.

Two other teachers also competed for the award and Yolanda Pilarca also from Ordot Chalan Pago and Melissa Terlaje from M.U. Lujan Elementary School. Its great to have Guam represented in Washington DC and know that we have some of the best teachers in the US of A right on Guam.

Come join us and hear what they have to say and ask them questions about their class and education on Guam.

We will also introduce a new program called the X-Factor featuring youth on Guam. The idea is to introduce exciting and innovative youth and youth programs during the show. The first program we are planning is Invention Madness for both K through 12 grade and college students. It is not a science fair but an invention and improvement fair.

Companies, professors, business people, hotels, car dealerships and more will be asked to challenge students to either invent something new for the hotels, make a better motor or make an improvement on a cell phone. Develop a train that can go underwater or make your cell phone water proof. Maybe the airlines will offer a suggestion or ideas for improvements.

The idea is make an invention or improve a product and put it all on a web page for all to see. Then bring it to Invention Madness and share it with our listeners at a live show. Every other week we hope to high light one or two students and mentors working on projects for the event. If you are a teacher, a professional or hobbiest and want to help a student develop an idea or encourage your students to join in the madness call or fax our discovery and expedition coordinator, Peter Melyan at 1-671-789=1567 or Cell 1-671--789-1567 or e-mail <melscot@guam.net> .

Listen to The Deep and learn more about our leading ladies of Guam and also about our NASA Award winner and the new X-Factor youth project and how to become one of Guam's youngest inventors. Become a madness volunteer or sponsor and help Guam improve.

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