Teri Bauerly
Middle School Computer Science Instructor
This is Teri’s seventh year teaching and her first teaching a Computer Science course. She teaches at Spearfish Middle School, in Spearfish, SD, where she has taught STEM courses for four years and helps organize the school-wide Hour of Code each December. In addition to having coached robotics for 2 years and advising the Spartan Tech Squad, Teri started a makerspace where students have been coding robots & drones as well as creating 3D prints, cardboard furniture, and duct tape items. In our conversation, Teri talked about helping students make connections between their lives and computer science, the reasons why her high achieving students struggle with computer science, and the importance of CS in middle school. Read more about her on our blog at Techlanthropy.org