Congrats to Farmer Elementary Teacher Gina Kimery

Kimery honored with Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching

Farmer Elementary School teacher Gina Kimery has received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

“This is one of the highest honors you can receive as an educator,” Dr. Hargens said. ‘“I am incredibly proud of Ms. Kimery, the Farmer staff and of course our students, who are inspired by our great teachers every single day.”

Winners of the Presidential honor receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation to be used at their discretion. They are also invited to Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony, as well as educational and celebratory events and visits with members of the Administration.

Kimery is one of 213 mathematics and science teachers from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity Schools chosen for the award. Winners were selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians and educators following an initial selection process at the state level.

Each nomination year of the award alternates between teachers in the kindergarten through sixth grade level, and those teaching seventh through 12th grades. The cohort of awardees named today represents two nomination years, one of the kindergarten through sixth and the other in seventh through 12th grade classrooms.

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