Sophomores Savannah Miller, foreground, and Trinh Keegan, canoe through alligator-inhabited swampland in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge this week. The two were among about 50 Ivy Academy students to travel to Georgia’s southeast coast to learn more about marine life.Trinh Keegan finished a school field trip this week with big ideas.
After seeing experts tend to wounded reptiles at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, 16-year-old Keegan left inspired.
“I want to work there one day,” she said.
About 50 10th- and 11th-graders from Ivy Academy, a Soddy-Daisy charter school, visited the Southeast Georgia coast this week to learn more about marine life. The trip was meant to tie in lessons from Ivy’s environmentally focused instructional program.
“There’s no better way to understand and appreciate the environment than to experience it,” said Ivy environmental science teacher Jim Watson.