A Plug for My Mom

My mom is pretty cool, so I do what I can for her.

The school where she teaches 3rd grade is trying for $50,000 grant from Clorox to help jumpstart their STEM program. They are way behind in the polls. Please vote for them!

You can vote by text AND online once a day up through December 9th. That means you alone can offer 62 votes for her school before time is up.

Text clorox6297 to 44144 AND vote online for Skyview Elementary.

...I used to teach swimming lessons to some of the kids in the picture. The tallest one was definitely in my pollywog class at age 2.

Pee My Pants Excited

Later today, I get to have tea with the keynote speaker for graduate commencement, Gail McClure. Tea is always nice--English Departments are classy, especially at Kansas State U.

I've been working on finals so I hadn't read through her resume until this morning. When I read the following line, I fell in love:

"Intermittent Expert, National Science Foundation, Education and Human Resources Arlington, VA. Provide strategic design and guidance to staff and administration related to STEM education" (emphasis mine)

The.

National.
Science.
Foundation.

Also, if you don't know what STEM is, it's an education program for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

I really enjoyed making those letters excessively large.

Okay, it's time to get to work. I need to take Naomi's final this morning, and do some grading before I have tea with someone so cool I will be too scared to talk. Awesome.