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AEM Stories

Every month, the National CAP Aerospace Education Newsletter highlights an Aerospace Education Member (AEM) and tells the member's story. Each of our thousands of AEMs has a unique story. They range from public, private and home school teachers to youth leaders in a variety of organizations. If you know of AEMs to feature, please email us at ae@capnhq.gov.

Robert H. Wakelyn Jr., Florida AEM

Posted on September 27, 2023 at 9:11 PM by Virginia Smith

Mr. Wakelyn is dropping the paper rotorcraft for the the class as students watch

Robert Wakelyn, an elementary STEM teacher in Sanford, Florida, is the 2023 National ACE Teacher of the Year. September 27,...

Howard D. Hardison, MSgt, USAF (Ret), Florida

Posted on April 27, 2023 at 1:50 PM by Virginia Smith

Sgt. Hardison poses with a visiting meteorologist and cadets

Howard D. Hardison, MSgt, (USAF Retired), AFJROTC instructor, invited a local TV meteorologist to his classroom while the students were...

Courtney Gagnon, Alabama AEM

Posted on December 19, 2022 at 1:05 PM by Virginia Smith

Courtney Gagnon poses with her students who are working with the Bee-Bot robot in the background.

Courtney Gagnon uses CAP's Bee-Bot STEM Kit in lessons at Coosada Elementary School in Millbrook, Alabama, where she is the...

Debbie Reynolds, Pennsylvania AEM

Posted on September 26, 2022 at 1:12 PM by Virginia Smith

AEM Debbie Reynolds is pictured in the plane cockpit during her TOP Flight

Debbie Reynolds, a Pennsylvania AEM shown here on her CAP TOP Flight, has been a teacher since 1986. September 26,...

Dr. Suzanne Banas, Florida AEM

Posted on July 21, 2022 at 3:19 PM by Virginia Smith

Dr. Suzanne Banas explains flight concepts to students working with manipulatives

Dr. Suzanne Banas has retired after 40 years teaching in public schools in Miami Dade County Florida. Her next project...

Alabama AEM Emily Gregory

Posted on May 18, 2022 at 4:53 PM by Virginia Smith

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Teacher Emily Gregory of Alabama has been a gifted specialist for 22 years. May 16, 2022 Meet Emily Gregory, gifted...

Florida AEM Marian Gilmore, a special education teacher, uses ACE Program to reinforce concepts and engage her students

Posted on April 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM by Virginia Smith

Teacher Mare Gilmore works outside with a student who is launching a straw rocket

Florida AEM Marian (Mare) Gilmore is the ACE Coordinator for Silver Sands School in Fort Walton Beach. Silver Sands was...

Arizona AEM Lisa Medlyn uses CAP programs in after-school STEM club

Posted on March 15, 2022 at 6:35 PM by Virginia Smith

Teacher Lisa Medlyn poses on a hiking trip outside.

Lisa Medlyn, an Arizona AEM, has been a CAP AEM for a year and is a participant in the ACE...

Texas AEM Melanie Justice says students take pride in the work they create and design using CAP lessons

Posted on February 10, 2022 at 4:59 PM by Virginia Smith

Melanie Justice and students work with a parachute

Melanie Justice, a P.E. teacher at Creekside Elementary in Livingston, Texas, is the 2020-2021 National ACE School Coordinator of the...

Alabama AEM Kelli Jo Wilson, National ACE Teacher of the Year, is fulfilling a dream to inspire youth

Posted on January 10, 2022 at 4:35 PM by Virginia Smith

Portrait of Alabama teacher Kelli Jo Wilson

Kelli Jo Wilson, a 7th grade life science teacher at Holtville Middle School in Deatsville, Alabama, became a teacher because...
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