Museum Education
Crothers earned his Master’s in Museum & Field Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and has worked in museum education, written educational programs, and conducted gallery/lab tours at a variety of museums since 2015.
He has developed physical and digital educational kits, models, and written documents for a variety of museums. His educational work has been featured at conferences and symposiums such as the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Association of Materials & Methods in Paleontology, and the 2022 Influential Platform for Energy Professionals (IMAGE) conference.
Among the institutions in which he has conducted outreach and education at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, the Badlands Dinosaur Museum & Dickinson Museum Center, Appalachian State University, and the Appalachian Fossil Museum.
Paleo-Summer
Badlands Dinosaur Museum & Dickinson Museum Center (2022)
A series of hands-on educational activities designed to teach K-12 students about the paleontological and geological history of North Dakota
Journey Through Time: A Paleoclimate Investigation
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (2025)
A series of classroom kits designed to promote critical thinking regarding climate conditions in Cretaceous and Paleogene North America.
Appalachian State University
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences (2021-2023)
While at Appalachian State, Crothers managed Dr. Andrew Heckert’s Paleontology Undergraduate Research Laboratory and developed outreach materials, kits, and programs for the GES Department, including a full-sized Tyrannosaurus rex skull replica for the McKinney Geology Teaching Museum. Crothers Received the GES Outreach Award in 2022.
