Careers with Animals presented by Echoes of Nature! - In-person - Celebrate Earth Month! Earn SSL!

Elementary, middle & high school students meet live animals!

Free tickets required! Tickets available on the 3rd Floor at 3:30 PM the same day. Elementary, middle & high school students discover exciting options for careers with animals & meet live animals!

Free tickets required! Participants should arrive early to receive a ticket, tickets will be available at the 3rd Floor Tech Bar at 3:30 PM the same day. Space is limited! This special event can only accommodate 60 participants.

Interested in an exciting career that deals with nature, natural history, biology, animals, or science in general? Wondering what routes you could take to get there? Discover a variety of career options and paths, ask questions, and meet some live animal ambassadors, which may include a mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, or invertebrate! Depending on available types of animal ambassadors on the day of the event, you may be able to touch one or more of these animals!

Earn SSL by helping us design library programs and helping with cleanup & takedown!

This special Earth Month event will take place in the large 3rd Floor Meeting Room and is presented by Echoes of Nature, a not-for-profit environmental education organization dedicated to helping people understand, appreciate, and care for Maryland's wildlife and natural environment. Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, MD, Inc.

This program is most appropriate for elementary through high school students. Library Program Attendance is limited to participants within the suggested age range of the program.

Questions about this program? Contact Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library at 240-773-9420.

Looking for more things to do at MCPL? Teens, tweens and adults, celebrate Black History Month with free snacks Wednesday, February 18 from 4-5:15 PM and get inspired by discovering your local MoCo history and the first Black public high schools in Montgomery County! Special guest Montgomery History Speakers Bureau's Ralph Buglass will guide you in "Separate but UNequal: The History of School Segregation in Montgomery County." In Montgomery County, no Black high school was built until many decades after the end of slavery. Get inspired by these schools' incredible impact on Black education all over the South! No registration! Drop-ins welcome! Earn SSL by helping us design library programs and helping with cleanup & takedown!

Take a look at these MoComCon resources for suggested graphic novels and nonfiction for kids, teens, and adults! Don't have a card right now? No worries! Find out how to Get a Library Card.

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

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