One of the unusual aspects of long-running Southern University’s Project MISE is that both in-service and pre-service teachers collaborate by working in small groups to provide interconnections between participants, and to create and maintain mutually beneficial dialogs. Pre-service teachers shadow in-service teachers through class observations and scheduled field trips to the LIGO Livingston Science Education Center. LIGO snacks are used prior to field trip and/or after to reinforce site observations.