PolarTREC Teacher

Cameo is a teacher from Norfolk, Virginia. For the past 15 years she has taught for the Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs (SECEP), a regional public day school for emotionally disturbed children.

Cameo believes that experiential learning is important and exposes her students to as many different experiences as possible. She and her students have built rockets, hatched butterflies and chickens, built a puppet theater and performed puppet shows, made soapbox derby cars and had races, created a miniature scale model of the Egyptian pyramid, and many other interesting things.

Cameo has had a lot of amazing experiences herself that she shares with her students. She has dug for mammoth bones in South Dakota and searched the mountains of Mongolia for the elusive Pallas’ cats. However, the opportunity to be a part of the SCINI team and go to Antarctica will be the most incredible experience she has ever had.

Cameo’s role in the project will be to assist the SCINI team in any way possible. She will also have duties to perform in her capacity as a PolarTREC teacher. PolarTREC is a program that is funded by NSF and administered by ARCUS in conjunction with the International Polar Year. Cameo will document the research of the SCINI team with photos, journal entries, and podcasts. She will be sharing this with students, teachers, and the public as they follow the SCINI team on the Antarctic Undersea ROV link at www.polartrec.com.