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Julia Barry

Undergraduate major or graduate field of study: B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Subject area(s) and grade level teaching focus: Physics, grades 9-12

Category of scholarship/fellowship:
Noyce Teaching Fellow

Name of Noyce institution:
Kennesaw State/M.A.T. Physics

Current academic or teaching status:
3 years teaching experience

School and school district:
Wheeler High School, Cobb County

Background:

I received my B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2008. After being accepted as a Noyce Fellow at Kennesaw State, I completed the coursework and received my M.A.T. in Physics in 2010. I immediately began teaching at Wheeler High School and have been teaching physics and coaching robotics since then.

Why do you want to teach:

I enjoy three aspects of teaching: 1) The job is challenging and never boring. 2) My students have such an amazing variety of ideas and quirks. 3) I love learning. Teaching is an amazing opportunity to make a difference by providing future generations with the tools to develop solutions for important, real-life problems.

Describe a memorable teaching experience:

This year, I handed out a unit-long project requiring students to design a mission for food drops into war-torn African countries using their knowledge of projectile motion. Despite the unit’s brevity in comparison to previous years, the Unit 2 test scores were 16 points higher than previous years. After talking to the students, it was clear that the project was a major factor in their success. It was the first successful, rigorous project I’d given that directly affected performance on final tests, and I resolved to make more activities like it from then on.

What does the Noyce program mean to you:

It provided me with financial assistance, but the Noyce community has been far more useful. Without the network of professors, teachers, and fellow students, I would not have developed to the point I have.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE-2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

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