For years a group of Earth scientist have searched for radio signals from outer space.  Recently we have begun a new approach.  Instead of listening for signals we will create our own long range radio messages and beam them out to targeted galaxies.  Nobody knows if there is alien life out there in some distant galaxy of space.  If there is, we hope that our messages might some day reach them.   But how do you introduce yourself to a being from another galaxy?  How do you explain who we are and what our planet is like?  Our sixth grade created these messages: