{"id":15866,"date":"2023-06-27T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:39:02","slug":"mackenzie-barrette-winner-of-the-2023-bay-student-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/mackenzie-barrette-winner-of-the-2023-bay-student-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Barrette, Winner of the 2023 Bay Student of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The 2023 Bay Student of the Year Award Winner<\/h2>\n<h3>Mackenzie Barrette<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15879\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Student-of-the-Year-Mackenzie-Barrette.webp?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"A photo of Mackenzie Barrette, donning a denim Save The Bay hat.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Student-of-the-Year-Mackenzie-Barrette.webp?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Student-of-the-Year-Mackenzie-Barrette.webp?resize=760%2C760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Student-of-the-Year-Mackenzie-Barrette.webp?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Student-of-the-Year-Mackenzie-Barrette.webp?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Mackenzie\u2019s passion for environmental issues and Narragansett Bay began at a young age through school programs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rapidly, she became an advocate in her own home, encouraging her family to make environmentally-friendly choices. She became so interested in Save The Bay\u2019s work that, after participating in a cleanup, she encouraged her parents to join her in volunteering at the Exploration Center and Aquarium.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mackenzie has been a committed docent and an ideal \u201cBay Steward of Tomorrow\u201d by quickly learning about Narragansett Bay marine life and delighting in becoming an educator in her own right by engaging aquarium guests and sharing her enthusiasm for Bay subject matter with all ages.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Bay Student of the Year Award Winner Mackenzie Barrette Mackenzie\u2019s passion for environmental issues and Narragansett Bay began at a young age through school programs.\u00a0 Rapidly, she became an advocate in her own home, encouraging her family to make environmentally-friendly choices. She became so interested in Save The Bay\u2019s work that, after participating &hellip; <a class=\"excerpt-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/savebay.org\/mackenzie-barrette-winner-of-the-2023-bay-student-of-the-year-award\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,241,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15886,"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions\/15886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebay.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}