Edward Little High School teacher to spend 3 weeks studying Arctic Circle

SUN JOURNAL • April 28, 2022

Erin Towns left Maine on Saturday for a two-day flight to Ilulissat, a town in western Greenland 220 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the focus of the class she teaches. Towns is one of 11 teachers from across the nation selected to participate on a scientific expedition called PolarTREC. She will be away from her Auburn classroom for over three weeks learning what to teach next. “It is important to prep these guys for the economy and the politics of rising sea levels for when they do get out of high school,” she said. Towns’ Edward Little students will follow along the entire time through online journals, podcasts and PolarConnect real-time presentations from the field. “The primary goal of my experience is to communicate to my students what polar scientists are doing in the arctic.”