Melissa Sleeper is a National Board Certified Teacher currently teaching Life Science and Space Science at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, Florida. A career changer, Melissa worked as an Agriculture Economist/Statistician setting up crop reporting services and running rural household surveys. She lived and taught in both public and private schools in Morocco, Egypt, Grenada, Barbados, Bolivia, and Nicaragua in addition to her extensive work here in the States. Melissa has the unique experience of being able to say she has taught at every grade level from pre-K to adult.. Melissa an active member of the National Science Teaching Association, The AIAA and has served on, among others, the Aerospace Advisory Board and National Middle Level Science Teachers Association. Her passion for space education was flamed when she was selected an Educator Ambassador for NASA’s MAVEN Mission. We are grateful to know such a passionate STEM educator and we know you will appreciate Melissa as much as we do.