Bronwen Howells Walsh
As head of Barnstable High School s new $1.2 million Environmental Science and Technology Lab, Michael Smith cannot wait to get to work.
Now entering his 18th year of teaching at BHS, Smith teaching environmental science and biology in the school s student-driven Environmental Science and Technology Pathway.
He also is collaborating with some of the region s most accomplished scientists – among them, Laurel Schaider of The Silent Spring Institute; Amy Costa of the Center for Coastal Studies; and Zenas Crocker, Barnstable Clean Water Coalition – to start a high school intership program.
The new lab opened to BHS students Oct. 26. A partnership between Town Manager Mark Ells, a water engineer who worked with Brian Howe, professor of marine science and technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Supt. Meg Mayo-Brown, the lab will help grow partnerships and collaborations with people who actually work in the industry on the C