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Talking Trash with Teens

As part of her master's coursework, Miami University graduate student Shelley Shrader submitted a blog post, and it was published on NAAEE's site...

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Talking Trash with Teens

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Shelley Shrader hold a spiderAs part of her master's coursework, Miami University graduate student Shelley Shrader submitted a blog post, and it was published on NAAEE's site. In “Talking Trash with Teens!” Shrader shares how her job as a youth development coordinator, working with teens 14–18 years old, has led to a project that is addressing waste problems in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. "Teens often get a bad reputation. ... The teens I have the pleasure of working with love this planet. ... The passion they carry is contagious. I know because I feel it," she writes.

Shrader is earning a Master of Arts (MA) in biology from Miami through Project Dragonfly‘s Global Field Program while working at South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, South Carolina. Shrader’s international fieldwork with Project Dragonfly includes studying ecology and ecotourism in Costa Rica and examining the forces of evolutionary, geologic, and social change in the Galapagos. Shrader connects many of her master’s assignments into her work at youth coordinator.
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