Jul 30, 2025
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...
Jun 25, 2025
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...
May 27, 2025
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...
Apr 30, 2025
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...
Mar 27, 2025
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,”...
Feb 27, 2025
Michigan native Gayle Belin grew up in the Detroit suburbs and worked as a speech language pathologist for nearly five decades. She and husband Gary Kessler, an MDC boat captain, live in Ormond Beach and have volunteered at the Marine Discovery Center for more than 10...
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