{"id":18,"date":"2016-06-30T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2016-06-30T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:26:02","slug":"about-my-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/about-my-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"About My Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=tomlinson_thom\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I teach science classes at Vernon Malone College and Career Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our school is housed in a building that once served as a Coca Cola bottling plant, a plant I visited on a fifth grade field trip! This fabulous facility provides students with a comfortable environment specifically designed to encourage student collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>My career as a professional educator began at the University of Colorado. I taught Psychology and Statistic courses to undergraduates and graduate students. I took a break from teaching to help start two different breweries and a food service company. During that time I dearly missed teaching. Ten years ago I was at the right place at the right time and received an offer to return to the classroom. I have been teaching middle school or high school ever since.<\/p>\n<p>After ten years as a public school educator, I needed an infusion of ideas. I yearned for a network of colleagues dedicated to improving their craft, people determined to be the best teachers possible. I wanted to surround myself with people who recognize teaching as a profession. I hoped for a support group for those really tough days. My principal and my PBL coach were instrumental in encouraging me to apply for the Kenan Fellowship. As Kenan Fellows they recognized that a Kenan Fellowship met my needs at this time in my career. Thanks Ashlie and Michelle!<\/p>\n<p>The goal of my internship with the Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies Center at NC State is to use the engineering design process to develop new concepts in wearable devices that address a world health problem. Achieving this goal will require me to utilize 21<sup>st<\/sup> century skills, employ cross-curricular thinking, and adopt a cross-cultural approach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2016\/06\/THE-Team-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"THE Team\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2016\/06\/THE-Team-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2016\/06\/THE-Team-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2016\/06\/THE-Team-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2016\/06\/THE-Team-624x501.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Team Najwyzszy with mentors Professors Jur and Veety. Left to right, Professor Veety, Brooke Woodard, Annie Polashock (front), yours truly (back), Peter Faulkner and Professor Jur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I teach science classes at Vernon Malone College and Career Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our school is housed in a building that once served as a Coca Cola bottling plant, a plant I visited on a fifth grade field trip! This fabulous facility provides students with a comfortable environment specifically designed to encourage student collaboration. My career as a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/about-my-fellowship\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}