Clay Mcmullen Analysis

Clay McMullen is a boy who has been passionate about nature since he was 11. He loves the osprey (an endangered bird) in Ohio (his hometown) and wants to prevent it from ever being extinct. As it states in Teresa Murray’s article, ever since Clay figured out that the osprey relied on wetlands to survive, and 90% of Ohio’s wetlands have been destroyed in the past century, he started to help the osprey to not become extinct. To help this he had an idea to create platforms to sit on tall poles in wetland areas specifically for osprey. He received about $150 worth of materials donated from Home Depot so Clay could build these tall platforms. Later, Clay searched online for where to get grants, and made a request to Disney and was then awarded