Nancy McGee English Language Arts Facilitator • Grand Prairie ISD It is official. I have been named as a Fellow in the Explorers Club. I am humbled to be mentioned in the same company as leaders like Sir Edmund Hillary, Ernest Shackleton, and John Glenn. As a Fellow, I am also eligible to take the famed Explorers Club flag on one of my expeditions. Explorers Club Fellowship is the highest tier of explorers and reserved for those who have distinguished themselves by directly contributing to scientific knowledge in the field of geographical exploration or allied sciences. Such accomplishments usually are evidenced by scientific publications documenting fieldwork or explorations. The Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. Since its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists worldwide. For more than a century, members of the Club have traversed the earth, the seas, the skies, and even the moon, on expeditions of exploration. First to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon – all accomplished by our members. North Pole - 1909 - Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and Ootah. South Pole - 1911 - Roald Amundsen Summit of Mount Everest, World’s Highest Peak - 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Marianas Trench, Greatest Ocean Depth - 1960 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh Surface of the Moon - 1969 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins For more information about the Explorers Club, click this link: http://www.explorers.org/index.php/about/about_the_club.