My dad was a hippie. I was really fortunate I went into marine science…. But then, my middle name is Wildflower, so I could have gone into botany.

Often it takes the first year or year and a half just working out the kinks. So we want to provide applicants with the opportunity to get it right.

We’d love to be able to fund more.

Eventually we want to create stewards of the environment. … We hope that introducing kids to these scientific concepts will make it more likely that they’ll become scientists.