DISCOVERING AMAZINGWORLDS

Explore with Michael Jones*

Mike is a nationally recognized science educator with a wide range of experiences and qualifications. Join Mike in Island Lake Group's laboratory, collecting vessel, in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. 

The Informal Science Library offers students of all ages access to the world around us through exciting 'electronic field trips' which he pioneered 39 years ago.

Selected topics are live-streamed and interactive from ILGs lab and aboard our 22-foot collecting vessel. 

The Washington State K-12 Science Learning Standards (WSSLS) are the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). These standards describe what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. ILG content is targeted at Washington State 4th Grade Storyline through Middle School learning objectives. 

Our content is specifically designed to supplement home-schoolers, private and public school-age learners and the general public. 

Our goal is to stimulate interest in STEM-identified core areas.

L.  Halley's Comet Jet Flight Expedition

R. Artifact restoration, Vatican Labs, Rome

ML. Our diver, Project Undersea Uplink

Bottom diagram, DeepStar48 sub project Sub test pilot

Video field Production, Jerusalem for major film archive project

LR, Comet Hale-Bopp taken on Bishop Museum jet flight for patrons, Honolulu HI.

* Michael Jones is the Co-Producer of Project Undersea Uplink, the world's first interactive Electronic Field Trip and two Comet Rendezvous with Halley's Comet and Comet Hale-Bopp

Above, Chosen to represent Washington in NASA Teacher in Space Project.

Meeting at the White House, and President Reagan with Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmidt, 1985

Below, Deputy Project Manager and Test Pilot for Paul Allen's submersible, Pagoo. Hydro-testing pressure hull in Canada. Tested to 1500 feet. Following commissioning, served as submarine pilot aboard superyacht Octopus

* Michael Jones is the co-developer of Project Undersea Uplink, the world's first interactive Electronic Field Trip and eight jet flights to rendezvous with Halley's Comet and Comet Hale-Bopp.