Nancy Klausner

Klausner’s innovative teaching idea, “Geek It Up With STEM,” focuses on introducing students to STEM-based careers and encouraging achievement in Mathematics, Science and Reading. Program participants will be given computer literacy training, coding classes and hands-on workshops related to STEM-based fields by professionals who are currently in these careers. Once members of the Geek Squad become experts, they will begin to provide technology service, computer literacy training, coding workshops and classes to the student body and teachers, increasing computer literacy throughout the school. Since most of her students are below the poverty line and cannot afford expensive STEM-based camps and programs, Klausner hopes this project will reduce performance gaps among disadvantaged students by giving all students an equal opportunity to learn about STEM-based fields.