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My name is Alex Egan and I am currently in the Masters of Education in STEM program here at William Woods University. I am currently going into my 5th year as a teacher. My first two years as an educator, I taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Automation and Robotics and Design and Modeling classes. The following two years I taught high school Graphic Arts, Geometry and Construction, Video Game Design, and Research and Design. This year I will be teaching two different PLTW courses, Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) and Principles of Engineering (POE) at York Community High School. Over these past 4 years, I have coached football, soccer, and Esports, as well as started a robotics team.

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I hope I can find more ways to integrate technology from a remote learning stand point from this class. The classes that I teach heavily revolve around equipment at school and hands on learning experiences. I hope this class will lead me into implementing technology that students can access through Chromebooks as well. A lot of softwares we use in our industrial tech department cannot be accessed by students on Chromebooks.

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I formally played D1 football at Ball State University as a placekicker, punter, and kick off specialist.  My first career start was against Texas A&M at Kyle Field!

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Technology plays an important role in everyone's lives today. I enjoy using different social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, etc. for news updates, staying connected with friends and family, and of course memes. I also play and coach numerous amounts of video games. I have Coached Varsity Rocket League the last 3 years and had a student sign a FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP for esports last year!

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The courses I teach focus on exposing students to the engineering design process, research and analysis, teamwork, communication, and other 21st century skills. IED is a course where students will use CAD software (Inventor, Fusion 360, Onshape) to design, create, and solve real world problems. POE is a course that students learn entry level coding through RobotC and use Vex Robotics to solve different design challenges. Throughout both of these courses, students can use files that they create to 3D print and build their solutions. I am around technology all day for my job and would consider this my dream job in education.