By Lisa D. Mickey A lot has changed on the grounds of 520 Barracuda Boulevard in a little over two decades. Chad Truxall, then a rookie science teacher in his 20s, launched his career in education in 1999 and taught at New Smyrna Beach High School for five years at...
By Lisa D. Mickey At Marine Discovery Center, they are affectionately called “the Volcano family.” And for good reason. That’s because the pursuit of a family activity at MDC turned into a family passion to create the non-plastic material utilized by MDC’s...
With an opportunity to reverse decades of paving over paradise to put up a parking lot, Marine Discovery Center (MDC), along with community partners and local enthusiasts, will remove a large area of impervious pavement, reshape the shoreline, and convert the...
Patty McClanahan Walker was born in Virginia, grew up in Eastern Kentucky and ended up in Florida, where she taught elementary school for 30 years. Walker was the 2011 Osceola School District Teacher of the Year and the 2008 Bellalago Academy “Just Read Florida!...
By Lisa D. Mickey Seeing is believing and adult students in Marine Discovery Center’s Marine Habitat Restoration class got that opportunity recently when they traveled to the Florida Keys for field studies. Offered by MDC for the third year as a special topics class...
Our mission at Marine Discovery Center is to protect and restore Florida’s coastal ecosystems, which are home to an incredible diversity of wildlife – including sea turtles! While turtles are often seen popping their heads up for a breath offshore or even...
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