Kimberly Rothberg Myrtle Beach, SC | K-6, Mathematics, 2020

The official biography below was current at the time of the award.

Kimberly Rothberg has been an educator for 15 years, all of which have been at Carolina Forest Elementary School. For the past year, she has taught third, fourth, and fifth grade students in gifted and talented mathematics. For the previous 14 years, she taught fifth grade, including gifted and talented mathematics and English. Kimberly’s passion for teaching children extends beyond the classroom. She is currently one of the Rubik's Cube team coaches and spent many years leading her school’s robotics team. She was also an active member of Horry County’s Ed Tech Task force, the lead teacher of the school’s prealgebra program, and has worked on district curriculum writing teams in many subjects over her years in education. To celebrate her love for the arts, she has also worked on multiple school musicals. Kimberly has presented staff development sessions both at the school and the district level. She is a leader within her school and someone that is looked upon to mentor teachers who are just starting out in the profession. Kimberly strives to instill a love for mathematics into her students. To do this, she creates real-world experiences as well as provides hands-on instruction to engage and excite students’ love for learning. Kimberly is a graduate of Coastal Carolina University with a B.S. is elementary education. She is a gifted and talented certified teacher.

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• Awardee with Dr. Quincy Brown, Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Dr. Sylvia Butterfield, Acting Assistant Director at the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) within the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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