Neil Plotnick Everett, MA | 7-12, Mathematics, 2015

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

Neil Plotnick, an educator for 13 years, has been a special education teacher for the past nine years at Everett High School. He 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. For the past two years, Neil has been teaching Computer Science, and most recently participated in a national pilot of the new 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 writes a blog on computer science teaching for the National Science Foundation’s CS10K community. In December 2014, he presented at the 100 Superstar Teachers conference in Washington, D.C. that was sponsored by the National Center for Women and Information Technology and NSF. Neil earned his B.A. in geography from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a M.Ed. in education from the Graduate College of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

• High-resolution version of the official portrait photograph
• Awardee holding Presidential certificate between Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, Dr. John P. Holdren, and Assistant Director, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation, Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy.
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