Doug originally comes from South Florida, where he grew up playing in the Everglades. This helped instill his love of and curiosity about nature. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Central Florida. He then worked for many summer camps and educational camps around the country where he fell in love with teaching students the wonders of nature and learned to explore student curiosity. This led to teaching science at an alternative high school where he also started working on his M.A.T in Teaching with Western Carolina University, expecting to graduate in the summer of 2023. Through these diverse teaching situations, Doug has been learning how to best serve his students so that they not only learn and do science but also enjoy it.
