Saving the World When You’re Still in High School 

5.1.2026 – In this episode of Indigenously Positive, reporter Bella Davis visits the Mescalero Apache reservation to learn how high school students are creating wildfire and flood sensors to protect their community from natural disasters. Indigenously Positive is a collaborative series from NMPBS and nonprofit newsroom New Mexico In Depth telling joyful stories from Native communities around our state. 

Host/Producer: Bella Davis (Yurok)  

Director/Producer: Benjamin C Yazza (Diné)  

Guests: 
Cody Rice, Mescalero Apache School junior  
Anavay Wheeler, Mescalero Apache School junior  
Audrina Reynold, Mescalero Apache School sophomore  
Hendrick Aldava, Mescalero Apache School junior  
Nate Raynor, Mescalero Apache School STEM director  
East Padilla, Mescalero Apache Tribe Division of Resource Management and Protection employee  
John Salazar, Mescalero Tribal Fish Hatchery supervisor