Thirty students and teachers from GLOBE schools in Delhi, India, visited the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden in Hong Kong as well as the Hong Kong Wetlands Park as part of a Biodiversity Learning Expedition organized by the Regional Office for GLOBE in Asia and the Pacific. The expedition, sponsored by the Indian Environmental Society (IES), actively involved students in GLOBE projects and activities covering Biodiversity Conservation.

Mr. Wade Geery, a GLOBE Teacher at Norfork Elementary School in Norfolk, Arkansas, has been involved in GLOBE since 1999. Over the years, he has found himself pondering his involvement with GLOBE, sharing that at times he asks himself, “Why am I still doing GLOBE? Most of the time I decide that my students and I have invested too much in it to quit, however, last year I rediscovered a much more compelling reason: the joy of recording student discoveries in our natural world.”

Kohler High School in Kohler, Wisconsin offers participation in the GLOBE Program as an academic, extra-curricular activity. Through GLOBE, students learn how the atmosphere affects them and their environment and apply these findings to their daily lives. GLOBE Teacher Ms. Jessie Good stated, “GLOBE is a scholarly program in our high school that attracts students who are academically motivated and are interested in global environmental issues.”

On 23 September 2010 a class of 8-year-old students from Primarschule Sali in Olten, Switzerland, teamed up with 19 and 20-year-old students from Kantonschule, another GLOBE School in Olten, to perform Hydrology Protocols on a small local river. The primary school class was led by GLOBE Teacher Patricia Gygli, who is also one of the Assistant GLOBE Country Coordinators for Switzerland. Students observed macroinvertebrates as bio-indicators and tested the chemical parameters of the water, such as pH, oxygen, and nitrate levels along with water transparency. 

The GLOBE Program in Cameroon organized a week-long teacher training workshop from 9-12 November 2010 in Bamenda, the capital city of the Northwest Region of Cameroon in Africa. The theme was “Local Climate Research to Understand Global Climate Change.” Decorative banners announced the workshop throughout the city of Bamenda, as well as local and national radio and television news broadcasts. This highly publicized event was well represented by participants from the Northwest Region.