Kathleen Jakobsen, a sixth-grade teacher at Altona Middle School in Longmont wrote "The Stars in Their Eyes" about her students. It won the Out-of-This-World Art and Poetry Contest and was displayed aboard the International Space Station. She read it aloud for Colorado Matters.
I see you, my students with stars in your eyes.
Kathleen Jakobsen
I mention Polaris and you ask 'How far, what size?'
I see you, my students with doodles of the moon, drawing crescents until there is no more room.
I see you, my students bewitched by the solar flare. I hear you exclaim "Less than eight minutes to get to here from there?!"
I see you, my students trying to develop a cosmic view in a room with no windows.
So what can we do? I orbit you. You orbit me. And we learn to go beyond that which we see.
