Custom K-12 Engineering by Dr. Ann P. McMahon

Custom K-12 Engineering by Dr. Ann P. McMahon

Dr. Ann P. McMahon is Uniquely Qualified to Bridge K-12 STEM Education and STEM Professions Using Developmental Neuroscience and Social and Emotional Learning

Dr. McMahon is a competent, dedicated and experienced professional - a leading expert in STEM education. She has worked as an engineer, a classroom teacher, a K-12 district science coordinator, a coach and consultant to school districts nationwide, a university instructor and professional developer of teachers, and the director of nationally and locally funded K-12 science outreach programs. Check out her impressive profile below - you'll want to get to know her.

Here are some of the qualifications that set her apart:

As an Engineer:

Earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and practiced in the aerospace industry.
Worked on multiple aerospace engineering projects over the course of ten years.
Studied Innovation and Design at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (d.school).

As an Educator:

Earned a Ph.D. in science education for research on the mental models that teachers have about what engineers do.
Studied as a Fellow in the Psychodynamic Research Training Program at the Yale Child Study Center.
Studied psychosocial development at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.
Taught grades 1-4 as an elementary school science teacher.
Taught Pre-K through 12 students in after-school, summer camp, and other informal settings.
Designed, launched, expanded, and directed multiple government- and corporate-funded, and fee-for-service science programs for K-12 audiences.
- As the K-12 Science Curriculum Coordinator in a high needs inner-ring suburban public school district
- As a university-based external consultant to K-12 school districts and state departments of elementary and secondary education
- As an independent STEM education consultant and scholar
Created and sustained collaborative educational partnerships among corporations, universities, informal science institutions, and K-12 school districts.

As a Professional Developer and Coach:

Coaches school districts nationwide in strategic planning of systemic school district science education reform as a national faculty member for the Smithsonian Science Education Center.
Designs and teaches Engineering in Your Classroom academies to grade 3-12 teachers in collaboration with a technical college.
Designed and taught inquiry-based graduate university courses in physics and astronomy for in-service K-12 teachers over 17 years.
Teaches developmental neuroscience and social and emotional learning workshops to teachers of grades Pre-K through 12 in collaboration with the LUME Institute.
Collaborated with university and informal science institution partners to deliver thousands of hours of professional development in science content and pedagogy to thousands of K-12 teachers over 14 years as a leader of government- and corporate-funded systemic science education programs.

As a Public Speaker:

Invited to address local and national organizations of educators, parents, students, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and researchers.
Regularly presents at conventions of professional organizations of teachers and STEM professionals.
Listen to examples of presentations here.

Accomplishments Relevant in Motivational Presentations to K-12 Students and Undergraduates:

Studied variable star astronomy at the Maria Mitchell Observatory while in high school as an Earthwatch scholar.

Published first research paper in variable star astronomy as a high school senior.

Won a four-year college scholarship in the Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search, a national science competition, for research in variable star astronomy.

Won a four-year college scholarship in the Monsanto/St. Louis Post-Dispatch Science Fair for research in variable star astronomy.

Worked alternate semesters at an aerospace company as a cooperative education student while completing undergraduate engineering degree.

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