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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...

Texas AEM Debbie Montenegro conducts outreach to improve public health and access to information

Posted on November 12, 2021 at 12:02 PM by Virginia Smith

AEM Debbie Montenegro poses in the CAP plane before her TOP Flight

Debbie Montenegro, an AEM from Texas, says her TOP Flight experience over Kennedy Space Center was her most memorable so...

Kentucky AEM Kaci Heins is taking CAP back to the classroom with her

Posted on October 13, 2021 at 8:30 PM by Virginia Smith

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Kaci Heins is a classroom teacher in Kentucky and a former education director at Space Center Houston. October 13, 2021...

Indiana AEM Patrick D. Carter stresses 'learning by doing' in science classes

Posted on September 15, 2021 at 12:44 PM by Virginia Smith

picture of Patrick Carter with students demonstrating Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Patrick A Carter joins students in a demonstration of how gravity warps space according to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity....

Virginia AEM Brett Bailey finds CAP activities help deepen student learning

Posted on August 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM by Virginia Smith

Portrait of teacher Brett Bailey

Gifted resource teacher Brett Bailey loves project/problem-based, open-ended STEM instruction for her elementary students. August 13, 2021 Meet Brett Bailey,...

Pennsylvania AEM Jeff Woodhams sees benefits of CAP resources in summer learning support program

Posted on July 12, 2021 at 2:00 PM by Virginia Smith

Picture of Jeff Woodhams holding a model rocket

Jeff Woodhams, a Pennsylvania AEM, has been a special education teacher since 2013. He has his pilot's certificate (single engine...

Tennessee AEM Amanda Callahan-Mims moves from archaeology field to STEM classroom

Posted on June 21, 2021 at 11:53 AM by Virginia Smith

Portrait of AEM Amanda Callahan-Mims at Space Camp for Educators

Amanda Callahan-Mims attended Space Camp for Educators in Huntsville earlier this month. There, she networked with several other CAP AEMs....
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