Welcome Charlie!

Thank you all for donating to the Graduate Program Scholarship campaign. Your donation welcomes Charlie into the Teton Science Schools’ family. He will continue growing as an educator because of your generosity.

In the past half-decade, Charlie has found himself in odd situations, such as wandering through the east Australian bush searching for bachelor pads of the male satin bowerbird, trying to teach 5-year-olds how to moonwalk for a water-cycle-themed rewritten Michael Jackson song performance, and being mistaken for a bear by tourists while researching grasshoppers at the National Bison Range. He just finished up a year of service in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest in the Portland, OR area, where he worked for an environmental nonprofit leading service-learning trips with students in stream and wetland restoration.

In his letter of intent, he said:

“From an early age, through boy scouts and family camping trips I loved exploring the natural world. This continued through my college career when I graduated with a B.S. degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Notre Dame. I soon after found a job in environmental education teaching young children at an Audubon sanctuary summer camp outside of San Francisco. I unexpectedly found that not only did I love what I was doing, but I was told that I was good at it. Being able to help children find a respect and wonder for the life all around them became a passion of mine. Since then, I have worked as a naturalist at a residential outdoor education center and now I am leading high school students in stream restoration service learning. Every day of being out in the field with students has been a joy and I am constantly reminded that environmental education is something I would like to continue to do.”

Your donation will relieve some of the financial pressure of Charlie’s Graduate Program expenses. He is extremely grateful and humbled by your generosity, especially knowing that you are all alumni of the program working together to offer him this scholarship.