A total of five educators were a part of the transformational project and professional development. This project connected over 100 of her students with NASA and allowed them to see their Satellite Launch Experimental Device (SLED) tested live at Johnson Space Center. Kellie was also a part of NASA Microgravity University for Educators in 2017. Her belief in providing accessible opportunities led her to coach First LEGO League, Idaho TECH Challenge, FabSLAM, Junior Botball teams, and MIT NASA Zero Robotics. In addition to her work in the classroom, Kellie has written STEM curriculum, coordinated STEM nights, Family Engineering nights, Family Creative Learning workshops, career nights, makerspace, after-school robotics, and 3D printing groups. After 11 months away from the classroom for the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship, Kellie returned to the general classroom, continuing project-based learning with a strong STEM emphasis through coding, robotics, drones, and hands-on science. Her use of project-based learning in the general classroom led to a position teaching Kindergarten through 5 engineering. As an elementary educator, STEM has always been a large part of her classroom.
Since that time, she has earned her masters (2006) and doctorate (2016) in Educational Technology at Boise State University. Kellie’s teaching career began in 2004 at Ustick Elementary. Kellie also served as a 2018-2019 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., creating STEM and Makerspace activities with primary sources. She currently teaches 2nd and 3rd grade at Hawthorne Elementary, and has just completed her time as a National Museum of African American History and Culture STEM Master Teacher fellow. Kellie Taylor is an elementary teacher in the Boise School District.
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