A report issued earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Education found that American students struggle with science.

Rhonda Forlow first attended college on a nursing scholarship, but after a few years decided she wanted to work with special education children instead."I switched colleges and started studying psychology and special education," she said in a recent interview.

Texas adopted new science standards for K-12 public schools in 2009, but the state did not have enough funds to purchase new science textbooks that covered all the information that students would be responsible to know.

Evgeny Bakhmutsky had always wanted to visit the Institute for Creation Research. In November 2010, he did.

"This is a dream come true," he told ICR staff during morning devotions.

Bakhmutsky is the vice president of the Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists of Russia, overseeing the operation of 2,000 churches in Russia. He also pastors a Bible church in Moscow.

Ernie Carrasco is building an ark.

Actually, in addition to working in the Institute for Creation Research’s Internet Ministries department, Carrasco is a student in ICR’s School of Biblical Apologetics (SOBA). And constructing a scale model of Noah’s Ark will fulfill some of his course requirements.