Mentors
Urban Ecology
Project TRUE
Bronx Zoo
Project Leaders
100

This mentor’s favorite animal is a giraffe and is super obsessed with them.

Who is Charlotte?

100

The interaction between living things (biotic) and non-living things (abiotic).

What is an ecosystem?

100

This is the spelled-out form of the "TRUE" acronym in Project TRUE.

What is Teens Researching Urban Ecology?

100

Lifesize statues of these animals greet you as you enter through Zoo Center.

What are rhinos?

100

This Leader has never and will never chew gum.

Who is Cole?

200

This speedy mentor is currently on a college sports team.

Who is Erik?

200

Where the Climate Clock is located in New York City.

What is Union Square?

200

This was our first in-person community builder and provided us with all the tea.

What is Never-Have-I-Ever?

200

Every zoo in New York features these vocal animals.

What are sea lions?

200

This Leader always has wisdom (and Covid updates) to share.

Who is Emily?

300

This mentor would like to live in a pineapple under the sea.

Who is Brigitte?

300

This man utilized redlining and built expressways and infrastructure to isolate communities in the Bronx and around New York City.

Who is Robert Moses?

300

These tools keep us dry and are on the shortlist for New York Fashion Week.

What are waders?

300

The Bronx Zoo opened in this year, making it a centenarian (old AF).

When is 1899?

300

This Leader has memorized every adoption bio on PetFinder.

Who is Carolina?

400

This mentor is a Which mentor is a LEOOOOOOO. Rawr.

Who is Odalys?

400

This type of ground cover, like sidewalks and roads, causes flooding, stormwater runoff, and water pollution.

What are impervious/impermeable surfaces?

400

A family of these nocturnal critters stole a track tube!

What is a Racoon?

400

This animal eats mostly bamboo but will splurge on an egg or some fruit now and then. Unlike its giant cousin, this fire-red creature spends most of its time in trees.

What is a Red Panda?

400

Your Project Leaders each live in a different borough. These boroughs are not represented. 

What are Queens and Staten Island?

500

Talk about a mental picture. This mentor is a psych major and a photographer.

Who is Fariha?

500

The process in which animal cells convert glucose into energy so that they can use to jump, run, walk and perform other functions necessary for survival.

What is cellular respiration?
500

The natural disaster that we were trying to protect the islanders from during Erik’s project pitch game.

What is a hurricane?

500

Bronx Zoo features plants from all over the world but what is the native ecosystem where the park is located?

What is a temperate deciduous forest?

500
Emily, Carolina, and Cole all work for this department at the zoo.

What is Education?