A teacher in Jackson won a national award for his teaching of high school astronomy and attributes the honor in part to Michigan Tech.
Mark Reed, who teaches at Jackson High School and Lumen Christi High School, won the Thomas J. Brennan Award for 2011 from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Reed was cited for exceptional commitment to classroom or planetarium education.
He is involved with Tech’s Michigan Teacher Excellence Program (MiTEP). He spent a week on campus in 2011 and will spend another week in 2012. He describes the classes and fieldwork as “wonderful”–“They get the creative juices going.”
At Tech, he worked with faculty and doctoral students, including Professor Bill Rose (GMES) and graduate student Mark Klawiter (GMES).
MiTEP is funded by the National Science Foundation to improve Earth science education nationwide.
Participation can lead to a master’s degree in applied science education.