THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, April 29, 1996                 TAG: 9604290073
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   19 lines

HELLO . . . IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?

The Virginian-Pilot

Stanley Ingram, 14, a seventh grader at Ruffner Middle School (in

the center TV monitor), is surrounded by classmates at an

interactive Nauticus display called ``Exploring for Petroleum from

Space.'' The class was at Nauticus preparing for an Internet

conference at the school scheduled for Saturday.

by CNB