As they say, time flies when you’re having fun, and Charlotte Harris should know. This is her 11th year of summer camp at MDC. Granted, most of those years were as a summer camper, starting at age 5 and ending last year when she aged out of the program. This year,...
Port Orange native Samantha “Sammy” Earney, 20, is currently enrolled at the University of Central Florida and is spending this summer working as an intern in MDC’s conservation program. While at Spruce Creek High School, she was dual-enrolled at Daytona State College...
Mia Harvey is a lead camp counselor for the second year at Marine Discovery Center and also is an intern with MDC’s conservation program. When she’s not guiding children at camp, Mia, 19, can be found tending mangrove trees, seagrasses and Spartina grass in the...
Marine Discovery Center intern Zoe Stuckwisch certainly knows her way around the center after 1½ years of hands-on experience with everything from aquaria, exhibit maintenance, and conservation deployments in the Shuck & Share shoreline restoration program to sea...
You would never know the guy with the big hat out weeding MDC’s native plant garden on his hands and knees was a former training engineer and quality manager at Kennedy Space Center, or later, the former director of institutional research and associate vice president...
It’s fair to say Gage Guinter is wise beyond his 19 years. And his dedication to help others runs deep, thanks to his lifelong experience of helping autistic twin brother Griffin navigate day-to-day life. “As a kid, I had a little bit more responsibility than most,”...
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