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Foothill Horizons Summer Camp- Summer Camp Naturalist
June 2025- August 2025
Sonora, California
At Foothill Horizons Summer Camp, children from ages six to sixteen spend a week in the outdoors making new friends, singing songs, swimming, exploring their creativity, and being screen-free. As the summer camp naturalist, my role is to be the connection between the campers and nature. They are already immersed in a beautiful setting, but my goal is to give more context to the nature they experience, as well as provide hands-on explorations in the outdoors. I lead two classes that campers can attend. One is a hawk class, where I handle our Red-Tailed Hawk, Goose, and lead a scientific sketch of our bird friend and answer their questions. The other option is a garden party, in which the campers come down to our garden, ripe with strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, peppers, blackberries (in the late summer), apples and plums! We explore the garden and find small insects, net around the pond catching invasive bullfrog tadpoles, as well as make brownies with a solar oven and tea from the herbs in the garden. I also would at times have campers help me with chopping the compost if there was some to be done.
Foothill Horizons Outdoor School - Naturalist Intern
August 2024- June 2025
Sonora, California
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Foothill Horizons is a bubble of safety, curiosity, personal growth and science education. As a naturalist intern, my job was to teach weekly groups of 20-35 6th graders outdoors and help foster a genuine connection to nature. Lessons taught include subjects in earth science, scientific practices, cave geology, Native Californian culture, traditions, and history, as well as an lesson on Giant Sequoias and fire ecology. Evening program duties consist of leading whole school groups of 100-180 students, managing large group activities, transition periods, and providing meal supervision. This job is extremely rewarding because I get to experience amazing things with my students, and many for the first time. Students experience climbing over giant boulders, putting your feet into a flowing creek, free explorations, laying in in the grass, petting a snake, and seeing a shooting star, among so many more special moments. My job includes being able to cater to and adjust my teaching methods to the needs of my students, have excellent time-management and student management skills, and be aware of safety at all times. As well, I follow lesson plans that use NGSS benchmarks and use the natural learning cycle to structure my teaching, meeting my students where they're at, and catering to their needs.
The Environmental Leadership Program
January 2024- June 2024
Eugene, Oregon
At the University of Oregon, the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) is a community-based learning project that helps students connect their studies with practical learning experiences by working in a team to accomplish a mission. In the Aves Compartidas project, this environmental education mission is to teach about migratory birds, and use them to show how we're culturally and ecologically connected between the Laja and Willamette watersheds.
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