[Jaine Perotti]

Some updates and some details:

If you are interested, PM me with the contact info for your mentor(s), as well as the school(s) your team is affiliated with. I, in turn, will put your team's contact info into our database, and you will recieve more information by email as to the details of the project in your area. I am not sure how soon we will be contacting you by email... some of this is a little "fly by the seat of our pants-ish" and we appreciate your patience.

Another thing I want to add is that I can't 100% guarantee that we will be able to get scientists/engineers/technicians to come and make a visit to your team and school. I have not contacted these people yet, and although I imagine that the majority of them will be enthusiastic and willing to help, not everyone may be available. I wanted to contact you (the teams) first because I wanted to make sure that I would be able to tell them who exactly they would be working with, who they would need to contact, and where they would be doing the project. I want to arrange the setup with the teams first so that it will be easy (and less confusing) for the MER people to come in and make the project a success.

Thanks to everyone who has shown interest,
-- Jaine