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Awardee Highlight

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Neil Plotnick

Massachusetts | 2015
Neil Plotnick, an educator for over 20 years, has had the joy of co-teaching in virtually every content area at the high school level including Algebra, Geometry, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science, English, History, and Oceanography. More recently, Neil has been teaching Computer Science, and most recently participated in a national pilot of the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course developed by Code.org. He has also served as the District Coordinator for Special Olympics and Adviser to the afterschool Computer Club. Neil is an active member of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). He has presented several times at the annual conference of the CSTA on how his students use the Linux operating system for programming, networking, and configuring computer systems. Neil has written a blog on computer science teaching for the National Science Foundation’s CS10K community.
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