Trustey Family STEM Teaching Fellow Wins Prestigious STEM Policy Fellowship

To be an effective science teacher, the teacher must be a true scientist herself. This much is clear to Kelly McCarthy, a teacher and researcher who is one of 12 people recently named to the 2017-2018 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program. McCarthy, a physics, environmental science, and mathematics teacher at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School in Coal Township, Pennsylvania, plans to use this experience working with federal STEM education policy as a way to inspire her students to become problem solvers in science.

Katie Schenkel, in her second year of teaching as an ACE Teaching Fellow at Our Lady of Prompt Succor in New Orleans, had her seventh grade class bring in objects, news articles, or stories about science happening in their lives. Katie had no idea how important this activity would be for one of her students, who had never previously displayed much interest in science class. This student brought in a picture of herself sitting next to her pet tortoise.