Lynne Gordon

Lynne, a graduate of Ohio State University (BSEd) and United States International University (MAEd), has taught at San Diego High School, which is both an International Baccalaureate and Writing Academy, since September of 1986. She has helped coach Science Olympiad students but devotes much of her energy in planning and presenting an annual SDHS Science Symposium since inaugurating the first one on the Human Genome Project in June of l993. Recent topics have be HIV/AIDS, Technology, and Biotechnology.

In the past few years she has participated in several ongoing educational opportunities: attending a biotech workshop as a Woodrow Wilson fellow at Princeton; becoming computer literate and surfing the World Wide Web as a Supercomputing Teacher Enhancement Program fellow at the UCSD Supercomputer Center. Currently, Lynne is a California Science Project fellow and presenting at Frontiers of Science Conferencen at UCSD.

Lynne received a $2500 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation grant to establish a biotech media resource library (housed at San Diego High School) and organized and host (under the auspicies of General Atomics Sciences Education Foundation) two workshops for teachers on the Human Genome project with over 60 area teachers in attendance at each.

Lynne received recognition as a Tandy Oustanding Science Teacher 1995-96, and the Teacher Partner of the Year Award (l996) from the San Diego Science Alliance.

 

 


 

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