AEOE Outstanding Service Award
The AEOE Outstanding Service Award is designed to thank those of our members who continue to selflessly devote themselves to the cause of AEOE. We have run as a volunteer board since our inception in 1954.
Maggie Wolfe was our first recipient of this award in 2006!
In 1998, Southern AEOE needed a Newsletter Editor. When a very enthusiastic, fun, and dorky person volunteered, nobody in AEOE at that time could have imagined what that meant for the future of the organization.
At first Maggie didn’t know much about designing a newsletter, she was an outdoor educator with relatively little computer experience. But that unique brain of hers was perfect for the job, and she taught herself what she needed to know and became a computer nerd in no time! Maggie was the ultimate communicator—she was able to inspire folks to write creative, relevant articles on many topics. And the newsletter was always beautifully and professionally designed.
During this time, Maggie also took on these roles:
- Statewide Conference Workshop Coordinator and the Keynote Speaker Coordinator for the 2000 Statewide Conference
- AEOE State President and Southern Co-Chair for 2001-2002
- Statewide Conference Co-Coordinator/Keynote and Entertainment Coordinator for the 2002 Statewide Conference
Maggie’s work was crucial for these very successful conferences. The same goes for all conferences after that, including this one. Maggie has always been a multi-talented volunteer!
In 2003, Maggie took on the job of AEOE webmaster. Thanks to her dedicated work, the website became well-known and respected throughout California and the whole United States as a fantastic resource for the environmental education field.
Maggie promoted and developed the AEOE Institutional Membership category by networking with EE programs throughout California, offering them website services that would normally cost hundreds of dollars per year, such as free job postings and free promotion of their programs. The AEOE website job page is the most heavily used for EE jobs in California, and certainly one of the very top in the country. AEOE’s Institutional Membership has increased by more than 300% since Maggie became webmaster.
