MDC’s September Lecture Features Sounds of Nature

MDC’s September Lecture Features Sounds of Nature

“Creating Space for the Sounds of Nature” will be the focus of Marine Discovery Center’s September Discovery Lecture Series. Eve Payor, Community Arts Director for Atlantic Center for the Arts, will be the guest presenter on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 6 p.m. Payor is a...
Former High School Site Offers Reunion for Teacher, Students

Former High School Site Offers Reunion for Teacher, Students

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...
Family Bonding at MDC Includes Making Volcanoes Together

Family Bonding at MDC Includes Making Volcanoes Together

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...
Promoting Paradise and Removing a Parking Lot

Promoting Paradise and Removing a Parking Lot

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 Walker Brings 30 Years of Teaching Experience to MDC

Patty Walker Brings 30 Years of Teaching Experience to MDC

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!...
MDC’s Marine Habitat Restoration Class Travels to Keys

MDC’s Marine Habitat Restoration Class Travels to Keys

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...