A Stanford student outreach team, headed by Michael Johnson, set up receiving stations in eight high schools, five in Colorado and three in eastern Canada. Johnson visited each school to help bolster support for the project. He's given talks to teachers and students explaining how the instruments work and what they are measuring. He also kept a diary of his travels to an Antarctic ground station that can be accessed on the web, along with project information. Students can even e-mail questions directly to Johnson.
Participants are able to uncover details by gathering the data, and analyzing it as well.
To help the students, Stanford researchers developed a computer program that starts and stops the data acquisition each day, and transfers the files to Stanford. This is important because students and teachers sometimes can't work on the project every day. Web pages and interactive tutorials have also been developed to explain the experiment to the students. A Java data-viewing program lets those interested view and download experimental data over the internet. Researchers are hoping this will allow students to access the data and pass it on to others.