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Title: Digital kidsHandhelds help turn kids into marine biologists - Stefanie Olsen Post by: Mark David on May 13, 2007, 08:58:12 PM On a clear day in March, a group of 10-year-olds were playing marine scientists from a lookout point in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, at a spot known for its views of humpback whales. The fourth-graders, out on a special school project with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, started at 9 a.m. observing the behaviors of 79,000-pound humpbacks from the shore. They would record, sometimes frantically when four of five whales popped up, what they saw with a handheld wireless device called an Indigo, which looks like a Palm Pilot.
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