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Carnegie Science Fall 2015 9 Courtney Robinson My role model was... Diane B. Jones I typically think about Mrs. Jones Diana B. Jones at Oxon Hill High School who was my microbiology teacher. And there were many others. They were always so encouraging and whenever you wanted to do a special project somebody was there to say Well these are the things you are going to need. And sure I will stay after work to help you. I think that those are probably just really good teachers who turned out also to be mentors. You can be a teacher without being a mentor. Other opportunities came later in graduate school my Ph.D. adviser was really involved in science education Jo Handlesman. I joke with her now that I was paying so much attention to the research that I probably was not paying as much attention as I should have been to the science education. But I picked up enough that it really sparked an interest. David Evans My role model was... Mrs. Kennedy There were several influential people. I was in the sixth grade in 1957 when Sputnik went up. My teacher Mrs. Kennedy sat me down and told me what I was going to do. There was no one in our family in my parents generation who went to college. She told me that I was going to go to college that I was going to study science and that I would get a Ph.D. and become a professor and have my own students and do research. I did not know what a Ph.D. was. That was not a language in my household. She wasnt specific but it never occurred to me to just not do that because after all if Mrs. Kennedy said you were going to do it you just did. That was a really important marker. And it stayed with me for a very long time after. I was also very fortunate in my early teens. There was a chemical engineer an outside neighborhood friend with my parents. He was actually very helpful. He would share journals and talk about things. I think he worked for a paper company. So I got tours and saw the kinds of things and got sort of a feel of what science was like other than what you read in books. They had an impact on me at a really critical time. That late elementary middle school early high school time is a time that we know is very very important. We lose a lot of kids to science and STEM fields in middle school. Thats when kids decide that science is too hard its kind of boring andunfortunately if you are a girlits really not cool. Its really important to get people involved at that point and provide inspiration and continuity for kids. Image courtesy Blonde Photography FOR VIDEO GO TO www.carnegiescience.Edu