Education
Early Childhood/Elementary
Middle School/High School
College and University
Early Childhood/Elementary
 Bonnie Bracey 6 July 2001
Bonnie Bracey is an educator. She has taught in the classroom in the United States and Germany. She travels extensively doing educational work and she's always on the move!
Constance Clowers 25 March 2005
Constance learned to sew at the young age of 7 years. Living out in the country in Germany, she enjoyed spending time with her grandmother who taught her the skills that would later lead to a career as a seamstress (including making period costumes for Knott's Berry Farm). Today, at the side of her real-life husband, she portrays Julia Dent Grant, the wife of General and former President Ulysses S. Grant.
Larry Clowers 4 April 2005
An electrical engineer by profession, Larry discovered a passion for portraying historical figures in Living History presentations. He became particularly fond of playing General Ulysses S. Grant and now limits himself to recreating President Grant in the most authentic manner possible. With his real life wife at his side, he not only portrays the general but together they present the former First Couple and a great love story.
Don Garate 25 August 2005
Don Garate is an interpretive historian at Tumacácori National Historical Park outside of Tucson, Arizona. An expert on Juan Bautista de Anza (of which there are father and son of the same name) he portrays the younger Anza in living history presentations. He is currently writing the second book in a series of three about the father and son.
Michelle Mock 25 January 2003
Imagiverse co-founder Michelle Mock had a 10-year career at NASA's Deep Space Network and after 9 years in the computer programming field switched gears to raise a family and return to her original dream of a career as a teacher.
Richard Murphy 30 October 2003
Dr. Richard Murphy, Ph.D., is a marine biologist. He has worked with Jacques and Jean-Michel Cousteau as a diver, scientist and underwater photographer since 1968 and is currently the director of Science and Education at the Ocean Future's Society. Be sure to check out his incredible underwater photographs!
Jane Nelsen 27 April 2003
Dr. Jane Nelsen, Ph.D, is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor, an author, a speaker, and a workshop leader. Find out how her experiences a mother of seven children opened up an unexpected career path which has taken her all around the country and to appearances on television with Oprah, Sally Jesse Raphael and others!
Charline Profiri 15 February 2005
Charline is a retired teacher whose children's book Counting Little Geckos is due for release in August 2005. Read about her path to becoming a published writer.
Homer Sewell 23 January 2004
Homer Sewell is a historical impressionist with an uncanny resemblance to the 16th President of the United States. Besides looking very much like Abraham Lincoln, who he portrays at schools and libraries around the country, there are 35 coincidences between the two "Abes".
Commander Page Turner 2 August 2004
Commander Page Turner is an author and illustrator of internationally awarded children's books. He visits preschool and elementary classrooms around the nation to promote literacy, self-esteem and a love of reading in young children.
Jennifer Wagner 21 January 2007
Jennifer Wagner is an educator who thinks teachers need to be having fun in order for the kids to have fun. She organizes online projects for schools, including JenuineTech.com (formerly TechnoSpudProjects.com).
Bonnie Walters 25 July 2002
Bonnie Walters has spent over 20 years in the medical field as a respiratory therapist. She is also an amateur astronomer and a volunteer technical operator for the Telescopes in Education project at Mt. Wilson Observatory.
Middle School/High School
Carsten Andersen 1 February 2004
Carsten Andersen is an astronomy and physics teacher in Copenhagen, Denmark. Students from 7 to 18 (and as old as 80!) visit "Stjernekammeret", the school planetarium at Bellahøj Skole.
David Anderson 6 November 2005
David Anderson is a retired Social Studies teacher who now supervises teacher interns. He developed some fun projects including "Hands Across the World" which make Social Studies come alive for students.
Michael Bastoni 5 August 2002
Michael Bastoni is a high school shop teacher and robotics instructor in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He did not enjoy school very much when he was growing up, but he is passionate about education and making learning REAL for his students.
Janet Cook 19 August 2003
Janet Cook is an educator who was inspired to live overseas after a mission to Peru she went on for her church. She is currently teaching high school in Germany and most recently taught English in Japan. Her two daughters provided a little input for her latest interview. Read what they like best about living in different countries and what they don't like.
Steven Dworetzky 19 August 2003
Steven Dworetzky teaches middle school robotics in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He developed the Mars Exploration Rover Robotics Education Project and uses many fun techniques to spark the imagination of his multicultural, multilingual classroom.
Chris Harris 18 January 2002
As a "military brat", Chris Harris grew up in many different places. Today he enjoys traveling all over the world, moving to a new location every few years.
Terri Jaggers 6 April 2005
Terri is a retired teacher who found herself in the "right place at the right time" and now is the Education Director for Quality West Wing Museum, an educational museum which includes a recreation of the Presidential Oval Office.
Jason Morrella 17 August 2002
Jason Morrella is a Regional Director for FIRST Robotics. He teaches a FIRST Robotics class for grades 9 through 12. Read more about the program called "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology".
Evelyn Torres-Rangel 26 July 2002
Evelyn Torres-Rangel is a high school computer programming instructor and robotics mentor. Find out more about BotBall by reading her interview.
Wendy Wooten 2 September 2002
Dr. Wendy Wooten, Ph.D., teaches high school Physics and Robotics. Her curiosity to understand how things work motivated her to get a Ph.D. in biological chemistry and physiology. Find out what type of students she remembers through the years and what motivates her to keep teaching... and learning.
College and University
Phil Christensen 14 August 2003
Dr. Phil Christensen, Ph.D., is a geologist and Mars scientist. Read how the young grad student, who sat in the back of the room watching Mars scientists vote on Viking landing sites in 1976, became the Principal Investigator for two instruments currently in orbit around Mars and two more headed for landing in January 2004.
Eric Chudler 11 December 2002
Dr. Eric Chudler, Ph.D., is a neuroscience researcher at the University of Washington. In addition to studying the brain and its pain mechanisms, Eric also does many science presentations to local classrooms.
Cynthia Duquette Smith 31 July 2004
Cynthia Duquette Smith is the Director of Public Speaking and a professor at Indiana University. She credits the outgoing aspects of her personality to her penchant for "putting on shows" for family and friends from a very young age and acting in school productions.
Vicky Hamilton 7 September 2003
Dr. Victoria Hamilton, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at the University of Hawai'i. Learn why this psychology major changed paths in college and went on to a career she "wouldn't trade for anything" as a planetary geologist actively involved in Mars research.
Chris Herd 17 September 2003
Dr. Christopher Herd, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Alberta. Chris is an expert in meteorites, comparing rocks from space with their more earthly counterparts. Read about how he got interested in planetary geology at an early age, and how "imagination is the root of the creativity that underlies the very foundation of science."
Tim Karr 4 March 2002
Dr. Timothy Karr, Ph.D., is a professor of Biology at the University of Chicago. He also researches "giant killer sperm". Find out why uninteresting drosophila are so interesting to study!
Jane Luu 21 March 2003
Dr. Jane Luu, Ph.D., is an astronomer who, with her colleague Dave Jewitt, discovered the Kuiper Belt which lies beyond Neptune. She is also a world traveler with an adventurous spirit.
Dave McCarter 15 February 2003
Dave McCarter is the current president of London Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
Steve Mitchell 7 May 2002
Steve Mitchell is a Systems Engineer working as a Contract Technical Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He also is a neuromuscular massage therapist and he plays lead and rhythm guitar in a band! Did you know that a lot of science is involved in making a band sound good?
Phil Plait 10 March 2004
Dr. Phil Plait, Ph.D., has gained fame as the "Bad Astronomer" who debunks the nonsense that pseudoscientists inflict on the general public. He gives some very good pointers on how you can too learn to question some of the silly stories that others try to convince you are factual. |
