How to do just that particularly in the Virgin Islands was on
display Tuesday at Good Hope School as the St. Croix
Environmental Association sponsored its second Environmental
Science Career Expo in partnership with the V.I. Network of
Environmental Educators. The goal of the event was to enable
middle school and high school students to learn about the career
path choices, work experience and skills required to attain jobs
in science and technological fields with representatives from
private enterprises, government and nonprofit agencies
participated. “We want to get kids excited about science. We
live on a small piece of land and are surrounded by the ocean
and we have to take care of it,” said St. Croix Environmental
Association spokeswoman Lynnea Roberts. “Beyond that, we want
kids to be excited about college and going to study science,”
she said. “There is a lot of science going on around the island
that is sort of undercover and a lot of people don’t know about
it.” Roberts said she hopes to put on two m