Published: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 8:32 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 8:33 p.m. <\/p>\n
DAYTONA BEACH A NASA scientists talk Tuesday night at Mainland High School about the search for other planets like Earth left 12-year-old Aaliyah Battle with one question. <\/p>\n
Is the Earth dying? the Campbell Middle School 7th-grader asked Firouz Naderi. <\/p>\n
No, it is not, but if we dont take care of it, then it can die, Naderi said. <\/p>\n
Naderi, director of Solar System Exploration at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, was the guest of Food Brings Hope, a Daytona Beach nonprofit organization that helps homeless children attending public schools in Volusia. There are more than 2,000 homeless students in Volusia schools and the program helps more than 600 children at 14 schools, said Forough Hosseini, founder of the nonprofit. <\/p>\n
Besides providing meals to the children, the nonprofit also helps nourish them academically. <\/p>\n
Naderi was in Daytona Beach for a presentation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, so Hosseini took the opportunity to have him speak to elementary, middle, and high school children so they get interested in different fields of study, she said. <\/p>\n
Speaking of billions of stars and suns and galaxies, Naderi grabbed students interest at the Performing Arts Auditorium at Mainland with videos, including one about the landing of the rover Curiosity on Mars, a project he worked on. <\/p>\n
About 200 students from different schools attended, Hosseini said. <\/p>\n
Basically I tried to give them a sense of what the universe is made of and why it is important that they study science, Naderi said. <\/p>\n
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