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Governor's Educator of the Year Program Program
Monmouth
2013-14
David Pinkus
Grade Level: 10th-11th
Teaches: Physics
David Pinkus holds a B.S. in GeoSciences from Penn State and is currently doing graduate work at the University of Virginia. In 2011, he received the Siemens Foundation Founder's Award, a national award for supporting student research in science and math. In the past two years, he is one of only four recipients of this prestigious award. Dave spent two weeks last summer working with researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and will be venturing to Chicago this summer to be trained as an advocate for Citizen Science. He has been teaching physics in New Jersey for the past twelve years.