TAMARA AHO - SCIENCE
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Tammy has a Masters of Science in Health Promotion and Education (University of Utah), Bachelors of Science in Liberal Arts (University of the State of NY), Associate of Science in Intelligence Applications (Wayland Baptist University), and an Associate of Science in Early Childhood Education (BYU-H). She served as an Intelligence Specialist for twenty years with the United States Navy. Tammy recently received her teaching license with endorsements in Biology and Health.

GARY BIGELOW - ENGLISH
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MATT BRADLEY - U of U COMMUNICATIONS
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ASHLEY BUDD - SCIENCE FAIR COORDINATOR
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KAREN CARTER - SPECIAL EDUCATION
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SHANNON FREESTONE - ENGLISH
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Shannon Freestone has earned bachelor degrees in English and political science from Weber State University. She also attended graduate school at the University of Utah in political science. Currently, she is working toward her special education endorsement. For the past two years, Shannon has worked for Ogden School District teaching special education and language arts. She has had the opportunity to work with a broad range of students, including learning disabled, English language learners, students with autism, and students with emotional and behavioral disorders.

CINDY HACKETT - PARAPROFESSIONAL
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BECKY HATCH - SOCIAL STUDIES
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DOUG HENDRICKS - PHYSICS, MATH, ASTRONOMY
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Douglas Hendricks became a high school physics and math teacher in 2003 after retiring from a 20-year engineering career in Silicon Valley where he made computer micro-chips and related equipment. Now as a teacher his focus is on helping students understand how many real life applications there are for the things they learn in school. Mr. Hendricks's educational background includes two bachelor's degrees from the University of Utah, one in physics and another in chemical engineering, and a masters degree from the University of Arizona in optical sciences.

KEITH HOMER – FOREIGN LANGUAGE/ESL
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Keith Homer comes to AMES after several years working in the Salt Lake City School District . With time spent at West High School and several years at Glendale Middle School teaching Spanish, Foreign Language Exploration, and Utah History, Keith is well acquainted with the many issues facing at-risk populations.

Keith isn't from Utah originally having lived in several states growing up. He spent his formative years in Connecticut before moving to Utah for college. He received degrees from Brigham Young University in Political Science and Spanish and a Masters of Education from the University of Utah .

Keith has strong interests in the public policy arena having completed internships in the U. S. Senate in Washington, D. C. and the Utah State Legislature as well as running as a candidate in District 30 for the Utah House of Representatives.

Keith lives in Midvale now with his wife, Kristin, a former schoolteacher herself, and their six children. Along with teaching he supports his family with a landscape/garden design business using experience and training gleaned from several years working on the Temple Square gardens in Salt Lake City . His wife has hopes that someday he'll be able to work on his own landscape.

LISA JASUMBACK - MATH
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MARY MARTINEZ - CHEMISTRY
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JANNA MARTIN -SOCIAL STUDIES
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Janna Martin will join our social studies department. Janna is a recent graduate from Westminster College and completed her student training at Cottonwood High school. She is working toward a master's degree at Westminster College in Multicultural Studies.

LESLIE MAUGHN - COMPUTER LAB
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ALISA MCDONALD - STUDIO ART, A.P. ART HISTORY
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BRENDA MCKENNA - U of U WRITING
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JOEL MILLER - MATH
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AUDREY NELSON-AIKIDO
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AMY NOYCE - 9th GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS & CREATIVE WRITING
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LAURIE OBERG - ENGLISH
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Laurie Oberg Hadden, B.A., M.Ed., brings to AMES eleven years of teaching experience across grade levels and in both public and private schools. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and history from Westminster College, and a Master of Education degree in teaching and learning from the University of Utah. She holds Utah state endorsements in secondary language arts and reading. Her areas of teaching interest and expertise encompass all facets of adolescent literacy, and she has enjoyed success using chess in the classroom to teach thinking skills and sporting behavior. Her leadership roles have included accreditation steering committee member, department chairperson, and faculty advisor for chess program and yearbook. A voracious reader and writer, she also is a past board member of the Autism Society of Utah, and a volunteer, along with her son, with the Autism Research Institute.

Dr. GREG OWENS - U of U CHEMISTRY
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TONY PANTZIRIS - U OF U PHYSICS
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PAUL RAMSEY - EARTH SCIENCE
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Paul Ramsey has had an exciting and varied life. As a boy, he lived in Brazil, his mother’s home country. In the mid 1960s, Paul’s family moved to the pine forests around Atlanta, Georgia where they lived for eight years. During this time, he gained a great appreciation for the outdoors. After that, he lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where his mother pursued a Ph.D. They eventually moved to Utah, where Paul’s mother worked as a University professor. The Utah landscape fueled a passion for the desert, where he spent a few years as a desert survival instructor. He later decided on a career in the Earth Sciences. Paul studied Geology at Brigham Young University and worked as a geologist during the Summers. As a geologist and concurrent student, Paul had the advantage of learning in the context of the field as well as in the classroom. Paul worked in platinum exploration in Montana, placer gold exploration in Arizona, and disseminated gold exploration in Nevada and Utah. As an Engineering Geologist, he worked all over the western U.S. These included fault investigations, soil and slope stability characterizations, ground water monitoring, and detailed geologic mapping. He also worked with hazardous material sampling. Paul’s greatest satisfaction as an Earth Science professional has been in the area of education. For 7 years he was the Science Department Chair at Meridian School, a pre-K through 12 private school in Provo, Utah, where he helped develop different methods of teaching science. Paul participated in a NSF funded project administered by Dr. Paul Cox, which developed various projects and strategies for service learning in the Sciences. He also worked with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories educational outreach in relation to the Galileo Mission to Jupiter. Paul believes that educators have the responsibility to be role models for students. Knowledge and experience are the princial tools of an educator, and we have the obligation to consistently add to our toolkit.

NICOLEEN RICHARDS - PARA-PROFESSIONAL
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MICHELLE SAFADI - WORLD LANGUAGES
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JILL SESTERO - MATH
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LYNDA SIMMONS - SPECIAL-ED.
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KIM SPENCER – SOCIAL STUDIES
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Kimberly Spencer is a graduate of Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah. Kim has a Bachelor’s of Science, with a Social Studies composite major, and History minor. She will be teaching U.S. History and Psychology. She is also the advisor for the Student Council. Kim is very excited to be a part of the AMES program. Kim thinks that AMES is a great program that will be very successful in meeting the needs of our students, and making their high school experience stimulating and enjoyable. Kim decided to become a teacher because she understands how much of a positive influence the good teachers that she had in school have had on her life. Kim considers AMES the perfect setting to continue those relationships with students.

MARTHA TAYLOR - INTERNSHIPS
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TANYA VICKERS - SCIENCE FAIR COORDINATOR
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VAUGHN WEBSTER -TECHNOLOGY
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Vaughn Webster has agreed to join AMES as our Technology Teacher. He most recently was the technology teacher at Brighton High School and has great experience working in the IT industry.

LAURIE WILLIAMSON - COMPUTER LAB
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