First day as Park Astronomer

Today was my first day on the job as Park Astronomer for Bentsen Palm State Park. First order of business was to find my 'office' and do some inventory on the park's collection of astro-scopes. They have quite a collection of some really nice optics used for their birding outreach but not so much for astronomy outreach. I went in with the expectation that I would either be driven to the depths of despair with junk or completely elated with some fine optics. Actuality was something in between. Definitely not junk though. There are a number of Orion Spaceprobe 3 AltAz newtonians, and a couple of goto newts. All are altaz tripod mounts so alignment will be straightforward and the little Spaceprobes have red dot finders at least. One goto is a Celestron Starseeker and the other is a Meade Telestar DS-114. The Orion mounts are lightweight wiggly-looking altaz tripods. It might be better to try to mount these on a dobsonian base of some sort, either commercial or homemade. All have 10 and 25mm eyepieces. The goto's appear to both be 12v AA driven. One battery box is slightly damaged. One eyepiece appears to be missing. All equipment is in the Audio Visual room which stays locked. I am to contact Javier (off friday and saturdays), Roy, or Melissa to gain access. Observing can be done in the office courtyards (dark with power), or the middle loop in the park (power available near restrooms), or out in the yard. Green laser pointers abound as do binoculars and 50mm spotting scopes.
The park hosts a 'night hike' on Wednesday and Saturdays as well as monthly special programs for volunteers. The Saturday night hike would be a good place to start some sort of outreach program. An astronomy program for volunteers would also be good.
First order of business is to complete checkout of the telescopes and familiarize myself with their operation. As a volunteer, this should be fun. If nothing else, I can work at my own pace!
Research results: The DS-114 gets uniformly bad reviews. The Spaceprobe 3 gets good reviews as a beginner scope, but this is for their SP3 with equatorial mount.
The Celestron is basically a NexStar GT. It remains to be seen about details like which handbox is attached but the site www.nexstarsite.com has a wealth of material on it, similar to Weasner's ETX site. I'm hopeful about this one as Orion sells it and it is essentially a current product with some support. It has a 1.25" focuser and an Orion EZFinder.