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Herpetology lecture for students at Post Oak Middle School in Spotsylvania  \nTravis Anthony performed 3 events for approximately 170 people  \n1. A tabling with Larry Mendoza at Reynolds Community College STEM Fair, Richmond VA  \n2. Presented a herp talk for the Rivanna Master Naturalist Class using the frog call slideshow and a modified “An Introduction to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Virginia-Northern Region.”  \n3. Presented a general program on herpetology to about 15 middle school students at Swift Creek Middle School for their wildlife club. It was well received, the kids asked lots of great questions and had great participation.  \nMarshall Boyd staffed a table display for 2 days and reached approximately 2200 people at the Virginia Living Museum’s Reptile and Amphibian Weekend.  \nBarry Buschow performed 4 events for approximately 130 people  \n1. Presented a herp talk for a St. James Episcopal School’s after school class  \n2. Assisted Ana Sparks at a Boy Scout Herp Badge event in Prince William Co  \n3. Assisted Caroline Seitz at Lake Frederick Conservation Club with a \"Amphib & Reptiles of NOVA\"slideshow  \n4. Assisted Caroline Seitz with an educational snake walk at Ivy Creek Foundation Natural Area  \nMike Clifford performed 1 event May 4, 2024 Pocahontas VMN Herpetology Training and Herp Search Mike Clifford, Kelly Geer, and Ana Sparks (and family) conducted the VMN event with about 30 traineesand staff participating. The hour-long indoor session included a slide presentation and hands-on intro to herps using some of Ana’s live specimens. Following that, we formed three groups for the 2-hour herp search. A cold front had put a damper on the herp activity, but the groups still had some success.  \nAmong the species encountered were two Rough Earthsnakes, a Eastern Wormsnake, a Dekay’s Brownsnake, five Little Brown Skinks, American Toads, Eastern Cricket Frogs, and a Red Eft.  \nMatt Close performed 5 events for approximately 3650 people  \n1. Presented a program on the reptiles and amphibians of Roanoke City and County to the Roanoke City & County Master Gardeners Club. They donated $75 to the VHS.  \n2. Tabled at the McHarg Elementary One School, One Book Adventure Night on March 28th and had a display that featured information about local and Virginia frog species, facts about frog anatomy and development, and general Herpetology. A community member provided their Grey Tree Frog habitat to display and tree frog habitat was discussed. Overall there were 132 McHarg students (pre-K through 3rd grade) and 500 people total (including students, their families, staff and guests) .  \n3. 2 Day event: Staffed a table at the Virginia Museum of Natural History's Reptile Festival  \n4. Zoom Turtle slideshow program for the Friends of Dyke Marsh who will make a $250 donation to  \nVHS  \nKelly Geer performed 2 events for 35 people  \n1. Assisted Caroline Seitz, Ana Sparks, and Yohn Sutton with an informal survey of Widewater State Park in Stafford.  \n2. Assisted Mike Clifford and Ana Sparks with a herp talk and walk for the Virginia Master Naturalists at Pocahontas State Park.  \nMark Khosravi performed 1 event for approximately 200 people  \n1. Staffed a table with Caroline Seitz at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fairfax’s Earth Day Festival.  \nLarry Mendoza performed 1 event for approximately 150 people  \n1. A tabling with Travis Anthony at Reynolds Community College STEM Fair, Richmond VA  \nCaroline Seitz performed 7 events for approximately 400 people  \n1. Presented a new VHS slideshow “An Introduction to the Reptiles and Amphibians of VirginiaNorthern Region” to the Lake Frederick Conservation Club in Frederick County.  \n2. 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