I am so proud to announce to you that senior Reyna Martinez will be starting her third Internship year with the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. Reyna has been working with mentor Adrienne Castro, Director of Education at the Chaffee Zoo.
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This year Reyna will be working to learn more about the animals diets, behaviors and needs. Eventually she hopes to be able to work directly with the animals after these learning experiences. Adrienne says that Reyna's future dream of working hands-on with the zoo animals is one of the highest achievements for volunteers and usually takes 5 years to move to this level.In addition to this new possibility Reyna is going to publish a children's fictional story book complete with her drawings of certain zoo animals with her own poetry to accompany each drawing. Reyna, while working with Adrienne will have to get the approval of Adrienne's superior to move ahead on each step in her project. The completeion of this project will be the culmination of a published work through our Big Picture Publishing Company. If given the approval to sell her work she would like to donate some of the proceeds back to the zoo in appreciation for their years of support while in high school.
Reyna has become a valuable asset to our school and our Zoo and we are very proud to call her a Big Picture High School student!! She plans to go on to college next year and major in a field related to working with animals.
Best wishes and great success for the fulfillment of all your dreams!!
Jon
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Jon F. Morse, Sr., M.A.
Executive Director
Big Picture High School-Fresno
jonmorse@bphsf.org
cell: 559.908.1714
