Contributing public relations SKILLS TO COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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Wenks created educational exhibit mockups, press release, media kit, nonprofit partners and pitches, audience research used to persuade George Mason University to employ students to create a Potomac Science Center exhibit benefiting school, public and student portfolios.

Front page photo and article start wtih press release, yields more partnerships and support for Dark Sky designation, lighting grants, and reignited educational sundial development. Article used to support need for county ordinance review and public hearings and application for Urban Dark Sky Place designation.

Hooked On Science's Jayson Lindsey accepted Wenks's story pitch, media release and video from the Wallops Flight Facility's ISS resupply launch that took student projects to space. The segment was broadcast nationally via ABC-TV morning shows and affiliates throughout the country, 

With nonprofit Higher Orbits, students work with astronauts through the country, press releases about winning projects and developing media relations results in multimedia coverage.

ISS National Laboratory responded to press release with coverage for teens studying moths and termites behaviors in space.

LPI's Planetary REaCH shares strategies to inclusively engage support outreach programs and serve underserved audiences at Washington, D.C.'s historic Shaw Library.

Speech writing, substantiated letters, and speaking at public hearings providing science, data, and experience supports community needs, nonprofits and parks for all.

More than 500 people attended Veggies 101, which resulted in overwhelming attendee request for a session about composting and a third about creating pollinator gardens. 

Great Falls Citizens Association shares the educational organization's press release data that supported dark sky initiatives, public hearings, and lighting ordinances.

Controlling invasives like broadleaf plaintain with chemicals is not always effective. so certified master gardeners share what works when herbicides can't keep up. Using Cooperative Extension research, master gardeners created educational YouTube channel. 

Composting is an skill shared with thousands of employees at the Department of Commerce who are acquiring sustainability skills. Attendees were from throughout the nation,

Mealybugs are cute until they cuddle with plants, requiring combat to eliminate. Master gardeners share science-based methods through an educational YouTube channel.