Starbase Atlantis Pearl Harbor instructor Rebekah McKee

Starbase Atlantis Pearl Harbor instructor Rebekah McKee looks for the name of the student that owns the rocket that she is holding in her right hand, while passing out the rockets to the students with her left hand during the graduation of the program's 286th class on Feb. 8 at Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The Pearl Harbor Starbase Atlantis Program is part of the Department of Defense sponsored Starbase Atlantis Pensacola, Fla. program that will graduate it's 100,000 student on Feb. 8. The Pearl Harbor program has contributed more than 7,000 students to the overall program graduation since it's start in 2002.
Starbase Atlantis is the U.S. Navy's portion of the DoD sponsored Starbase Program, an educational program focusing primarily on 5th grade students from the local communities to motivate them in science, technology, engineering and math. The Pearl Harbor site opened in 2002 and is one of 13 Navy Starbase sites.