Charlie Resnick
Resource Assistant, Outdoor Lab
Charlie (aka Mr Turtle) returned to the Outdoor Lab in 2017 as a Lab Assistant.
Charlie served on the Outdoor Lab staff since 2011, first as a counselor at summer camp then as a part-time lab assistant from 2013 to 2015.
Charlie was born and raised in the Westover neighborhood in Arlington. As a student at APS, he attended field trips to the Outdoor Lab. This early exposure to learning in nature, as well as experiences at Arlington nature centers and through the Boy Scouts, helped to define who Charlie is today. He continued to visit the Lab through High School as a student and a volunteer, which included the creation of a small gravel road adjacent to the meadow that served as his Eagle Project for Boy Scouts, and as an intern through the Senior Experience Program.
He believes that providing people with experiences in the outdoors, both educational and recreational, can inspire them to pursue efforts in conservation and to explore and cultivate their relationship with the natural world (other humans included).