From watching watersheds to saving sea turtles, Guam's future scientists are hard at work. Funded by the National Science Foundation, high school students at the STEM & Sustainability Expo are getting excited about science.

High school student Morcy Gilny hopes to take her research beyond the program.

"We're working on science communication. So when everybody has their data together we are finding a way to effectively put it out there and make everybody understand it more," she said.

The expo was held at the University of Guam School of Business and Public Administration Atrium. It is a part of a larger summer program that involves professors, undergraduates, and graduate students mentoring the island's youth. At the center of it all is learning more about the fields of STEM and sustainability

NSF undergrad fellow Laura Gombar took part.

"Everyone has a different project and we try and relate them to one another and see how they benefit our effort to restoring the bad-lands here on Guam," she said.

Organizers say that it is important that their research be accompanied by community outreach events like this one. They say it's part of everyone's well-being.

"If we can expose them to science, we can raise future scientists and help restore Guam's environment,"graduate student Frank Roberto