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Upper Perkiomen High School
2 Walt Rd
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, 18073
United States

Alan Snyder

Dr. Alan Snyder is Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies at Lehigh University. Alan has worked to make the university’s research environment and its rich connections with human concerns of value to all students.

Edward Clapp

Edward P. Clapp is a senior research manager and a member of the core research team working on the Agency by Design initiative —an investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker-centered learning —at Project Zero, an educational research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

John Spencer

John Spencer is a Professor at George Fox University, founder of the digital writing platform "WriteAbout", author of "Wendell the World's Worst Wizard", and former middle school teacher. John write about creativity and learning at SpencerIdeas.org.

Karen Stout

Dr. Karen A. Stout is the incoming President of Achieving the Dream. She has served as President of Montgomery County Community College (PA), a multi-campus college, in suburban Philadelphia since 2001. Recognized as an innovating community college, MCCC is recognized nationally for its work in student success, most recently receiving the prestigious 2014 Leah Meyer Austin Award through Achieving the Dream.

Pooja Girwarr

Pooja Girwarr is a 11th grade student at Upper Perkiomen High School, and has been in the school district since she was in Kindergarten. She has been involved in various organizations throughout her years of schooling at Upper Perkiomen. On her own time, she strives to fundraise money to support research to find cures for childhood cancer.

Salome Thomas-El

Principal El is an award winning education leader and author of "The Immortality of Influence" and "I Choose to Stay." As a teacher in inner-city Philadelphia Principal El lead his middle school chess team to multiple international championships.