East Meadow Student Becomes Educator at Children's Museum

Melissa Gross, a student at will spend her summer teaching environmental education programs at the Long Island Children's Museum.

Gross was chosen to participate in the museum's Green Teens program for the second year in a row.

Green Teens is an eight-week program in which 10 students from neighboring high schools teach interactive nature and environmental education programs to museum visitors.

The program, which is funded by a grant from National Grid, "utilizes the service learning model combining meaningful community service with a deeper level of instruction to produce an enriched learning experience for the teens."