A new study conducted by Oscar Schofield and Janice McDonnell demonstrates the power and importance of building up a “science identity” in youth, especially among underrepresented communities, and how that can translate into a more climate-conscious future generation. By investigating the impact of a middle school program connecting young students to real data on penguins in the Antarctic, they were able to pinpoint its transformative ability to make distant global issues tangible, reinforcing the sense that everyone has a role to play in even the seemingly far away problems of the world.