For many teenagers growing up in Trenton, one’s inner city environment is often plagued by problems of crime, poor health care, dilapidated housing and poverty, so getting them to care about the planet’s environment seems like a complicated problem. Maureen Quinn, Director at ScienceMentors 1 to 1 has a sublimely simple answer. “All you have to do is bring them out and stick their hands in the dirt and have somebody that cares about it spending time with them,” she said. That kind of strategy lines up with what Quinn calls her nonlinear approach to facing challenges and overcoming obstacles. H…