 On Friday, May 25th students in Ms. Welch's Second Grade class will be saying "Goodbye" after two years together. Ms. Welch taught first grade during the 2005-06 school year and then "looped" with her students to second grade. Looping is when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year. "The students, their families and I have gotten so close and we have accomplished so much!" says Heather Welch. "Having the opportunity to really get to know my students and their families has been amazing!"  As a memento of their two years together (and because she loves sea turtles) Ms. Welch adopted a critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle named "Mango" for the class. Mango is an adult female hawksbill sea turtle and was encountered nesting on August 6, 2006, on Lover's Beach in Nevis. She is part of the Eastern Caribbean Hawksbill Tracking & Conservation Project. The satellite transmitter attached to Mango sends signals to orbiting satellites each time the turtle surfaces to breathe. The data will be collected and downloaded to CCC researchers. Educational migration maps will show the best location points of the turtle's movements and locations. This will allow Ms. Welch and her students (and interested persons all over the world) to watch along as researchers discover where the hawksbill sea turtles travel after nesting. Click here to see Mango's Migration Map Read about Mango Hawksbill Sea Turtle Fact Sheet Info about Satellite Tracking of sea turtles For more information about adopting your own turtle or adopting a turtle as a gift go to http://www.cccturtle.org  Ms. Welch's Website Back to Recognition index 
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