Technology and training by Toshiba executives at San Onofre K-8 School evolved into a student-produced news program titled SOS TV. The students wrote reports on world news, local news, sports and weather. They also wrote letters to Marines deployed in Iraq, asking them to be world reporters from that country. The Marines were asked to write about people, food, living quarters, weather, environment, transportation and other aspects of that part of the world. The students received over 180 letters from Iraq; one was written on the back of a MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) package, another contained sand, and others contained stuffed camels and a prayer rug. The students had many first-hand stories to report on SOS TV. Through this experience they learned future TV/ communication career skills, as well as interviewing techniques from local TV news reporters who came to the school.