Robert Mardiney

Robert is an environmental teacher at Irvine Nature Center in Baltimore County, Maryland. He has served as Director of Education of the Irvine Nature Center where he has provided environmental education to children under the age of 16 for the past 27 years. During his tenure, Rob has expanded school field trips, outreach, summer camp, and public programs in numbers, content, variety and scope. These programs reach over 2,500 students annually. He also creates numerous educational programs for the 50,000 annual visitors to the nature center’s exhibit hall and trails.

— Proposed by Green Spring Valley Garden Club (MD), Zone VI
 

In recognition of your work in the Education and Outreach Program at Irvine Nature Center in Maryland. Your unique blend of talent has enabled you to continually raise the educational program to a new level of excellence. You are a gifted educator who works annually with students who come to understand the critical importance of protecting and respecting nature. Proposed by Green Spring Valley Garden Club, Zone VI