{"id":87943,"date":"2025-01-27T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=87943"},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:18:58","slug":"award-science-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/award-science-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard, Prince George\u2019s and Montgomery Educators Among Recipients for Top Award in Mathematics and Science Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">MEDIA CONTACT:<br>Raven Hill, 410-767-0486<br><a href=\"mailto:raven.hill@maryland.gov\">raven.hill@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Howard, Prince George\u2019s and Montgomery Educators Among Recipients for Top Award in Mathematics and Science Teaching<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><strong>BALTIMORE (January 27, 2025) &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four educators from Howard, Prince George\u2019s and Montgomery counties were among the most recent recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the nation\u2019s highest award for teaching in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established by Congress in 1983, the award recognizes individual achievement, student progress in STEM and\/or computer science, and the highest standards of STEM teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The science teaching honorees are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/paemst.nsf.gov\/finalist_profile\/7761?year=2023\"><b>Modupe Olafunmiloye<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Prince George&#8217;s County Public Schools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Kenmoor Middle School science teacher, has also taught science and special education to students with cognitive disabilities at Buck Lodge Middle School for five years.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/paemst.nsf.gov\/finalist_profile\/7891?year=2023\"><b>Krishni Patrick<\/b><\/a><b>, Montgomery County Public Schools, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has taught at Piney Branch Elementary School since 2007. A fifth-grade teacher, she has also taught third grade and STEM. She began her career as a DC Teaching Fellow at Truesdell Elementary School, Leckie Elementary School, and Thomson Elementary School. She then taught at Centreville Layton School in Delaware. <\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mathematics teaching honorees are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/paemst.nsf.gov\/finalist_profile\/8282?year=2023\"><b>Joan Shane<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Montgomery County Public Schools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, serves currently as the Mathematics Content Specialist (CS) at Sligo Middle School where she has taught mathematics for the past 12 years. She spent the previous 11 years teaching fifth grade at Oakland Terrace Elementary School with a focus on mathematics.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/paemst.nsf.gov\/finalist_profile\/7920\"><b>Kate Sandoval<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Howard County Public School System<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, currently serves as an elementary mathematics specialist at Bollman Bridge Elementary School, where she previously taught fourth grade. Sandoval has worked in the Howard County Public School System for nine years, teaching at the elementary level.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Maryland private school educators were also recognized. Honorees will receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation and all-expenses paid trip for an award ceremony. For more information, visit<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/paemst.nsf.gov\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paemst.nsf.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four educators from Howard, Prince George\u2019s and Montgomery counties were among the most recent recipients of the nation\u2019s highest award for teaching in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87943"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88063,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87943\/revisions\/88063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}