We visited Lyndon Baines Johnson Elementary School in the afternoon. I could hear music from Mexico before I entered the muti-purpose room where Dalia Hernandez, a third grade teacher nearing retirement, was coaching a group of young boys in girls as they practiced dances from different regions in Mexico. The only one I recognized was La Danza del Viejito from Michoacan state. It was a very refreshing site to see and hear this practice. After all the words on screen and the non-stop conversation, I enjoyed the energy of the kids and of the teacher.

As I ended my short visit in Hidalgo County it was clear to me that everything that Francisco Guajardo told me or showed me provided salient talking points about any number of issues: youth and technology, oral tradition, family ties, project-based learning, and how to attract good people back to help the place they had left. I thought his message would be of great interest at a meeting I was planning several months from my visit. After I returned home I found support for him and a team of four young people to talk about their experiences at the 2001 Internet Society conference in Stockholm, Sweden. And who knows what will follow from that appearance?