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Regional Directors |
Meet Your Regional Director |
8 Regional Directors elected every two years, half elected alternating years NESTA strives to have one or more State Contacts per State. |
Region I: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Region II: New York Region III: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia Region IV Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee |
| Region V: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio Region VI: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin Region VII: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas Utah, Wyoming Region VIII: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington |
REGION I  Litchfield, CT 7-12 ES & Physics Teacher (NY & CT) Prior Profession: Expertise: Accomplishments: Thanks to publicly available data, there is relative ease in being able to orchestrate collaborations between students, teachers, & scientists in order to investigate pressing ESS issues | REGION II
Andrew Boyd New Hartford, NY Earth Science Teacher (14 yrs) Expertise: Accomplishments: Past Chairperson of STANYS Mohawk Valley Section I love teaching about a topic that surrounds us and can be made local wherever you are. | REGION III  Montclair, NJ Teacher (16 yrs) Prior Profession: Expertise: Accomplishments: American Physical Society Science Writing Award for “The Planet Hunters” AAAS Travel Fellowship to Antarctica I love learning about the natural world; teaching allows me to do that and encourage that in others. | REGION IV
Ruston, LA UTeachTech Instructor—LA Tech Uni (5 yrs) Prior Profession: Einstein Educators Fellow (2012-2013) Expertise: Accomplishments: I was sitting in my 8th-grade ES class 'learning" about rocks—through pictures in the textbook. I remember thinking, "it would be awesome if we really had some rocks here - when talking about rocks!" I swore if I ever found myself teaching others about rocks—I would have some there for them to touch! |
REGION V
Milan, MI Retired Teacher - Bonsai Student Prior Profession: Expertise: Accomplishments: I came into ES by accident - I was assigned to teach it, although my degree was in Biology. I had the good fortune to become involved in the Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association (MESTA). The amazing mentorship I found there made a convert of me | REGION VI  Dana Smith Nicollet, MN MS & HS Science Teacher (22 years) Expertise: Accomplishments: We live here and need to understand how the Earth works so that we can keep living here. We can't protect what we don't understand | REGION VII
Tucson, AZ HS Science Teacher (20 yrs) Expertise: Accomplishments: We need to spread the wonder that Earth provides to its future caretakers, our students | REGION VIII
Ukiah, OR Science Teacher - all science — grades 5-12 (17 yrs) Prior Profession: Expertise: Accomplishments: 2014 NAGT Oregon State Outstanding ES Teacher of Year; THEMIS/GEONS Ambassador; NASA Special Appreciation Award for services to THEMIS Mission "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible" - Richard Feynman |
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