Our Youth Ambassador

"Teen Learning about Us and Sharing to You"

We selected Malika Shettar to be our youth ambassador for the year. Her task as a youth ambassador is to research and become actively involved with our field office - the staff, projects and events. She will promote our field office to the online community, to her peers, and her local community. Malika will share her experiences here and on the Youth Ambassador Blog web site. In addition, she has been asked to think of creative ways to promote the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the work of our field office using Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, or any other new media tool.

 

Read about Malika's experiences!
• Bug Camp
• Conducting Outreach
• Mississippi River Shrimp Project
• Outdoorama Special Event

Here are some photographs of Malika working with our field office:

 

Experiencing the "joys" of field work. Credit: Scott Wiggers, USFWS

Teaching about endangered species. Credit: Terri Jacobson, USFWS

Malika and tarantula at Bug Camp. Credit: USFWS

Learning about bees as pollinators. Credit: Scott Wiggers, USFWS	Collecting insects off a dead beaver. Credit: Terri Jacobson, USFWS	Practicing knot tying. Credit: Tyler Ollivieri, Volunteer	Successful catch of shrimp. Credit: Paul Hartfield, USFWS
Taking water temperature. Credit: Paul Hartfield, USFWS	Malika sets a funnel trap to catch shrimp. Credit: Paul Hartfield, USFWS	Mississippi River shrimp. Credit: Malika Shettar, USFWS

Taking photographs at Outdoorama. Credit: Deborah Logan

Malika helping at fishing event. Credit: Connie Dickard, USFWS

Holding a ferret at Outdoorama. Credit: Connie Dickard, USFWS