Andrew Banks
Title: Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Andrew joins the Keystone Science School staff following a year as an assistant teacher at the Logan School for Creative Learning in Denver. While visiting KSS with his class he fell in love with the rustic yet beautiful setting and decided he had to come teach here! A native of Colorado, Andrew developed a passion for outdoor education during his high school years at the Jefferson County Open School. Andrew earned his B.A. from Earlham College in Richmond, IN, where he studied psychology, with a focus in education, and worked as a college wilderness instructor and ropes course facilitator. Before moving back to Colorado in 2005, Andrew taught environmental science at the Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center and portrayed a 19th century fur trader at Conner Prairie, a living history museum in Indianapolis. Andrew loves to travel, hike, ski, square dance, sing, and play his guitar.
Joel Egbert
Title: Program Manager - Outreach & Summer Youth Programs
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Joel was a flatlander in Cincinnati, Ohio before moving to the high country. He now lives with his wife Jess, dog Oro and 6 other pets at 10,200 feet in nearby Leadville. Joel studied mass communication and motivational speaking at Wright State University and paramedic science at Columbus State. He has been working in the camps industry for almost 9 years. Joel has worked the full spectrum of camps. He has led programs for at-risk and underprivileged youth, specialty camps that included campers with diabetes, arthritis, and terminal cancer, outdoor education school groups, and corporate adults. “Keystone Science School has a special purpose, campers have an amazing magic, and Colorado is an incredible adventure. I have the opportunity to bring the three together – I can’t wait.” Joel’s interests are pirates, zombies, sharks, & of course camp.
Kendall Martin Brown
Title: Property Manager
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Kendall Martin Brown, who goes by Kenny, was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up with a passion for drawing and playing several sports. He eventually narrowed his love for sports to soccer and basketball. When Kenny was 15 years old, he worked at a landscape nursery, where he discovered a career in landscape installation. For the next 7 years, he moved around in various landscape companies, learning different areas of landscape design. He moved to Colorado in August 2003 for a change of pace, and plans to attend college in the summer of 2004.
Scott Ellis
Title: Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Scott grew up in Western Massachusetts. He received a BA in Environmental studies from Prescott College in Prescott AZ. He has spent the past three years running an adventure based program for youth at-risk in New Hampshire Public schools. In his free-time Scott is a passionate outdoorsman. He has hiked the entire Appalachian Trail & the Long Trail. He has rock climbed all over the Southwest & New England. He enjoys open boat white water canoeing & long quite paddles. Most of all Scott enjoys playing outside with young people.
Annemarie Fussell
Title: Program Manager, School Groups and Resort Programs
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Annemarie (Am) moved from New Jersey to Colorado in 1996 where she received her BS in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University in Fort Collins in 2000. Before coming to KSS she worked as a backcountry crew leader for teens and a naturalist in California and Colorado. She came to the Keystone Science School from California in 2003 as a field instructor, and is happy to be back in the Rocky Mountains. When she is not working, she is skiing, hiking, backpacking, climbing, biking or hunting for wildflowers and great views.
Annie Johnson
Title: Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Annie just recently traded in the skyscrapers of the East for the skyscrapers of the West! She joins Keystone Science School after teaching and coaching in private schools for five years, most recently finishing a three year stint as an elementary life science teacher in New York City. After graduating from college with a degree in environmental science, she lasted 9 months in an environmental consulting cubicle before joining the company of students and educators. Besides teaching, Annie has been busy for a decade of summers working as a residential camp counselor in Vermont. There she has lead numerous day hikes and overnights, and depending on the summer, she has taught athletics, swimming, canoeing, and campcraft. With her fondness for the old, rounded Appalchians, Annie is excited to expand her own environmental knowledge to include other mountain ranges and ecosystems.
Susan Juergensmeier
Title: Campus Registrar
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Susan has come full circle in her career. A native of Des Moines, Susan graduated with a BA degree in biology and secondary education from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Following graduation Susan worked for 12 years in the Education Department at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. While in Columbus, Susan earned a MA degree in Education from Ohio State. Her graduate studies specialized in outdoor and informal/interactive science education. Following several years as Education Director at the St. Louis Science Center and working as a coordinator of a teacher in-service training program for the US Dept of Education. Susan left the field of education to work with senior citizens in Ohio and as a travel agent for Vail Resorts. Now she has come full circle… working with creative people who encourage kids to get excited about science and our natural world. Susan’s other interests include volunteering for community organizations, traveling, hiking, biking and skiing.
Adam Knoff
Title: Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Adam was born and raised in Newton, MA, a town about 5 miles outside of Boston. Though he grew up close to the oldest city in the country, he spent ample time exploring the mountains and coastline of Northern New England, specifically the White and Green Mountains, and the Maine Coast. It was during these family weekends in the mountains that his passion for alpine skiing and the outdoors developed. He stayed in New England through college, graduating from Connecticut College in May 2005 where he studied Environmental Studies, which culminated with an Honor’s Thesis on U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. However, he took every minute he could to get off campus and get outside. After working for Keystone Science School’s Discovery Camp during the summer of 2005, he lived right here in Keystone, CO for a year, managing a ski shop, and living the “ski bum life.” He’s ecstatic to be back at the Keystone Science School.
Bob Moon
Title: Food Service Manager
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Science School Campus, Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Bob Moon was raised in South Dakota and moved to Summit County, Colorado in 1983. A graduate of the University of South Dakota with a Bachelor of Science in Biology/Computer Science, Bob decided life in the mountains was more desirable than an office job in the city. With considerable restaurant experience, a career in cooking was inevitable. Having participated in the field instructor staff training and being a long time local, Bob provides a unique perspective to the programs offered at Keystone Science School.
Amber Rudeen
Title: Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Amber grew up in Fort Collins, CO and graduated in May 2005 from the University of Idaho with a B.S. in Environmental Science. During her junior year she was lucky enough to attend school at the University of Hawaii at Hilo where she got to head to the beach and go snorkeling for classes. In the fall of 2005 she worked in McCall, ID at the McCall Outdoor Science School where she taught environmental education to 5th and 6th graders, attended graduate classes and received a Graduate Certificate in Environmental Education. The past four summers she has worked for the National Park Service and led the Rocky Mountain National Park Conservation Corps in RMNP. Amber loves hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, reading, the mountains and new experiences and is very excited to work for KSS.
Paul Saunders
Title: Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Paul grew up on the plains in Northeastern Colorado. The son of a school teacher and a professor, he was doomed from the start to become a nerd. He obtained a degree in Biology from Lewis and Clark College in the spring of 2004 and has held a variety of outdoor education and biological research positions. Paul has made it to 8 countries spanning 17 time zones (Japan east to France) and is close to reaching all 50 states. In his spare time, anything outside will do. He is an avid cyclist, hiker and skin diver (a difficult activity to pursue in Colorado) and hopes to soon upgrade from knuckle-dragging-snowboarder to exceedingly-graceful-telemark-skier.
Brittany Turner
Title: Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Brittany grew up in the suburbs of Denver, where she started to fall in love with the outdoors. She started running adventure trips in high school including caving trips, ropes courses and backpacking trips. She went to Western State College where she received her B.A. in Outdoor Recreation and Leadership where some classes included ice climbing, backpacking, and kayaking. After graduating from Western in 2003 she traveled and lived in many different places: she lived and taught environmental education on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii and the Big Island of Hawaii. She worked in Estes Park, Colorado for Kent Mountain Adventure Center leading backpacking and climbing trips as well as working in the office and expanding their challenge course. She just married her high school sweetheart this past June. They are really happy and are living in Summit County. She is very excited to continue learning about our environment and passing along the knowledge with others at Keystone Science School.
Lori Van Broekhoven
Title: Senior Field Instructor
Division: Keystone Science School
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-468-2098
Lori comes to Keystone Science School most recently from Bishop, CA. There she spent two years running the community service program and leading backpacking trips for an alternative high school. She fell in love with outdoor education while working as an instructor at the Inyo Outdoor School and is excited to continue exploring her passion for experiential learning. Originally from Boston, she earned her B.S. from Emory University in Creative Writing and English Literature. She enjoys climbing, skiing and playing in the mountains.
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