Ann,
I met you at the Sally Ride Science Festival at Rice. When I told Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack about PolarTrec and your project, he had me immediately sign up the Harris County Precinct Three Senior Education Program to "join" PolarTrec expeditions. We had volunteers from our new "Grandparent/Grandkid" Science Learning Program participate in the last Webinar and are looking forward to the next one. Commissioner Radack is a Bellaire High School graduate and sends his best regards.
Looking forward to more vicarious antarctic exploration via e-mail and webinars. If you need an extra volunteer down there, we have several 60 through 80 year olds taking astronomy, computer, and science classes who are now motivated to join you guys.
As a different generation of our constituents might say: "PolarTrec and Ms. Linsley ROCK!"
Dr. Bob Kendrick, Superintendent, Harris County government