It’s official!  We will be mailing “Preferred Reservation” cards out the first week of January.  These cards will go to all schools who have brought programs, been on the calendar but cancelled, or were on the waitlist for the last two years. 
     When you get your card, please be sure and complete all the information requested!  Mail it back to arrive on or before February 16.  We will start to fill the calendar by hand on February 16.  Schools with the most seniority with MarineLab will be given priority when there are duplicate requests for dates.  We may have to break multiple ties for preferred dates,  and will make reservations to accommodate as many schools’ first choice dates as possible. 
We will not schedule anyone else before we schedule all who have sent in cards. 
     We will call you with your assigned dates.  New schools may call us after March 15 to see about remaining available dates. 
     Questions?  Call us at 800-741-1139.
 

Featured Leave Only Bubbles New Item Build Your Own Underwater Robot      Art Mitchell is pleased to announce the addition of this curriculum book to our MarineLab’s Leave Only  Bubbles catalog.       The students start with an underwater exploration problem (how to live and work underwater, how to travel underwater, how to view and record the underwater environment and its critters). They follow a sequence of learning underwater engineering principles, constructing and testing simple prototypes advancing to modifications of buoyancy control, cameras, lights, thrusters, life support and more. ROV's, AUV's, manned submersibles, diving bells, hard suits, challenge inquisitiveness and creativity for the teacher and middle school - high school students.

Happy Holidays

     Once again, we are offering our Weekend In The Keys teacher workshop over February 14—16, 2003. 
     During this weekend workshop, the complexity and fragility of several tropical/ subtropical habitats will be introduced in a lecture/discussion format and then experienced first hand during snorkeling field adventures in seagrass beds, mangrove forests, and the spectacular coral reefs off beautiful Key Largo, Florida.
     Starting at 7:00 PM on Friday night, the workshop goes through lunch on Sunday and includes three snorkeling field trips, two evening programs, meals and accommodations.  The price is $90 per participant.
    To enroll, please go to teacher workshops.