this is Elena, this is Kate.

We're BLAZE!

♪ ♪ Come, we gotta look for birds.

Keep your eyes peeled for house finches.

BLAZE is the nature club I started specifically for the school.

We go to Trinity School in Eagan, Minnesota.

Mallard!

Good spotting!

What is BLAZE?

Becoming Loyal and Zealous Explorers!

We learn a lot about each other from discovering the natural things around us.

I wonder if there is any other turtles here.

We wanted to see more turtles in our school's habitat, but we just weren't seeing any.

Two more minutes, guys, make sure you're watching!

Turtles bask in the sun to store up their body heat.

There aren't very many places for a turtle to bask in our pond.

We wanted to learn what we could do about the population.

We decided to build a basking turtle platform so the turtles would have a little bit of variety in where they basked.

We also wanted to know what kinds of turtles and how many turtles were in the pond.

That is kind of complicated.

Our teacher Miss Adams told us that that pond was a protected wetland.

Long story short, Eagan would not want us to put anything man-made in this pond.

(SciGirls) Wetlands are protected because there aren't very many there.

Miss Adams also said that we would have to present our ideas to the school, so that they could present them to the city to see if we can get the basking platform in.

How were we going to do that?

You know, it's like aren't we too young to do that?