Jennie Lyons to become Einstein Fellow

Upper School teacher Jennie Lyons has been awarded an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship for the 2013-14 school year. Einstein Fellows work in the public policy arena, advising in U.S. Congressional offices or federal agencies. Jennie will be working at the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.

The Fellowship program is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science. As a fellow, she will bring her extensive knowledge and classroom experience to policy efforts, and she will collaborate with universities and organizations such as the College Board to establish and support educational programs in fields related to computer science. One initiative which Jennie will likely work on is a project called Transforming High School Computer Science: CS/10, the goal of which is "to develop an effective new high school curriculum for computing, taught in 10,000 high schools by 10,000 well-qualified teachers by 2015."

• http://science.energy.gov/wdts/einstein/
• http://www.trianglecoalition.org/einstein-fellows/2013-14-einstein-fellows
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