The students of Eastchester Middle School are now engaged in a solar research program in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education program and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. This ongoing investigation is entitled Project SunSHINE, for Students Help Investigate Nature in Eastchester.

Students are to determine how ultraviolet and visible light levels vary throughout the year at the school’s geographic location, and to ascertain if any measured variations correlate to daily weather conditions or sunspot activity. The students are also studying the health implications of extended ultraviolet exposure.

The Journal News Golden Apple Awards named Project SunSHINE the 1999 New York Wired Applied Technology Award winner. This honor recognizes the year's outstanding educational technology program at both the elementary and secondary level in Westchester and Putnam Counties and included a grant of $20,000.

In words and photographs, the Project SunSHINE web site fully describes the program's objectives, procedures and publication of the scientific discovery that has been credited to this research.