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Welcome. My name is Christine Girtain & I am the Lead Teacher for Seeds of Change in the Toms River, NJ area. My assistant teacher is Charlene Wallace. We are both Science Teachers at Toms River HS South. We are taking 17 students to Costa Rica to do Leaf Cutter Ant research and Sea Turtle research this summer.

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  1. UnknownJuly 26, 2017 at 12:40 PM

    Have fun guys

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  3. UnknownJuly 27, 2017 at 12:48 PM

    Thank you for keeping us posted I love seeing the kids being happy

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