caption: Eighth-grade students at West Side Middle School in Groton crowd around as science teacher <PERSON>, front left, chats via Skype with NASA administrator <PERSON> <PERSON>, at the conclusion of a remote meeting Friday, April 8, 2016. <PERSON> attended the U.S. Naval Academy with the father of West Side science teacher <PERSON>. The entire eighth-grade class watched the chat session with <PERSON> with several classmates getting to ask him questions. ( <PERSON>/The Day)