AFA National Report

摘要

Asixth-grade science teacher from Arizona-originally the Prescott/Goldwater Chapter's top educator-received the Air Force Association's 2014 National Aerospace Teacher of the Year award at AFA's National Convention in National Harbor, Md., in September. Kaci A. Heins, from the public charter school Northland Preparatory Academy in Flagstaff, received the honor at the Saturday evening AFA Field Awards Dinner. The photo of AFA Chairman of the Board George K. Muellner, the incoming COB Scott P. Van Cleef, and the Vice COB for Aerospace Education Jerry E. White presenting the honor quickly appeared on Northland Preparatory's Web page. "I eat, sleep, and breathe STEM," Heins had written in her Teacher of the Year application, referring to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, "because if I'm excited when I walk in my classroom, then my students feel that energy and they will get excited as well."