Dec 26, 2024
Spend any amount of time with Marine Discovery Center volunteer Gayle Hitchingslane and you will learn that she’s not only a gifted and gregarious “people person,” but she has a mountain of interests and life experiences. For starters, she is a trained and paid hula...
Dec 3, 2024
Dr. Art Litowitz was born in and grew up in Miami Beach, Fla., and many of his lifelong interests took shape in South Florida. After a career as an orthodontist, Dr. Litowitz became a board member at Marine Discovery Center and co-founded his own environmental...
Oct 29, 2024
You never know where you might find volunteer Trish Wheeler at Marine Discovery Center. She could be leading kids for summer camp activities or helping as a docent in the Welcome Center or assisting MDC’s Florida Master Naturalist Program instructors with fishing nets...
Sep 26, 2024
Cheryl Faber regularly bounces back and forth between Artists’ Workshop of New Smyrna Beach and Marine Discovery Center — nonprofit neighbors that share the building that once housed New Smyrna Beach High School. As the volunteer president of Artists’ Workshop,...
Aug 29, 2024
You might meet Marine Discovery Center volunteer Jackie Creedon at the Welcome Desk, or learn about the animals in the tanks in the exhibit area when she works there as a docent, or spend time with her as a kayak-tour sweep on MDC’s kayak eco-tours. The Pennsylvania...
Jun 27, 2024
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...
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