An Alternative Spring Break

This March, 68 students from Pennsylvania state colleges including Millersville participated in an alternative spring break. In lieu of a traditional spring break, student volunteers spent four days working at the Marine Science Consortium (MSC) on Wallops Island, Va.

Students volunteered to work on projects and clean-up the MSC’s main campus, the Greenbackville research site and NASA’s Wallops Island. The students volunteered 805 hours of service completing tasks such as painting buses and laboratories, building a campfire ring and wood shed, working on a local nature trail, building cubby units for a dormitory, creating signage and conducting a beach clean-up.

Millersville University students Antonio Mendez, Jenny Garter, Rebecca Saunders, Sarah O’Neill and Tyler Wilt participated in the weekend. They received information on the MSC and the alternative spring break from Millersville University’s Ocean Science Club.

The MSC is a nonprofit, environmental learning center located off the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The MSC educates children and adults about marine and coastal ecosystems.

Several student volunteers also had the opportunity to do field work during their stay and many volunteers will return this summer to complete summer field work.