{"id":1649,"date":"2016-10-28T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nearpod.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2023-06-27T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:00:49","slug":"congrats-to-nearpod-pionear-and-author-amy-roediger-winner-of-the-presidential-award-for-excellence-in-math-and-science-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nearpod.com\/blog\/congrats-to-nearpod-pionear-and-author-amy-roediger-winner-of-the-presidential-award-for-excellence-in-math-and-science-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Nearpod PioNear and Author Amy Roediger, winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September, the White House <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ed.gov\/2016\/09\/honoring-nations-leading-science-mathematics-teachers-announcing-active-learning-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">honored 213 recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching<\/a> (PAEMST).&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Included in those recipients was Nearpod <a href=\"https:\/\/nearpod.com\/pionears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PioNear<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nearpod.com\/authors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Author<\/a> Amy Roediger. &nbsp;From the PAEMST website, \u201cThe Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is the highest recognition that a kindergarten through 12th grade mathematics or science (including computer science) teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy has been an educator for 25 years, and has spent the last 20 years at Mentor High School, where she teaches Honors Chemistry to 10th\u201312th grade students. 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She has also coached competitive speech and debate for 25 years!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re lucky that Amy\u2019s skills and passion as an educator have been shared with us at Nearpod through her contributions to the Author and PioNear programs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out this YouTube video to learn more about Amy and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-RRJGT0XH4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out Amy\u2019s engaging Nearpod science lessons <a href=\"https:\/\/nearpod.com\/s\/amyroediger-A519831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAEMST is the highest recognition that a math or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-updates","tag-pionear"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.1 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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