Serenella: So my name is Serenella Linares.
I am the school programs manager here
at Audubon Naturalist Society.
I get
the opportunity
to design the experiences
that children will have
from all Montgomery County and DC when they came to us
for a field trip or when we go to their schools.
[Serenella] I also pilot
such ideas and experiences
and then train our
volunteers and staff
into how to execute them.
As a naturalist, you should be able to
observe the natural world around you.
You should be able to identify
a group of species
that are at your local level
and that you can talk to people about them.
I was also walking this morning with 14 preschoolers
and we discovered huge mushrooms and how they help the trees
and all the little creatures that can come and eat from it
like slugs or pill bugs or millipedes
that will be crawling and getting all that sugar
from the mushrooms.
So first thing in the morning, I arrive and I look
at emails, and I look at emails to see
what schools we can still fit in our schedule,
what are they needs, how can we modify what we're doing
to fulfill those needs and how can we provide
the best experience to the children and the teachers
that come to us or that we go to them.
Also communicating with the leaders, the staff that,
"Okay, these are the people that are coming,
"this is what I would like you to cover,
"or let's emphasize that,
"a lot of reinforcing positive behavior."
We're working with our future,
so I want that future
to be as positive, as bright as humanly possible.