About the Author
With childhood activities that included tinkering with her Apple II+ computer and conducting science fair research, Camille McCue, Ph.D. developed an early love of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). She earned her math degree at the University of Texas at Austin and worked in IBM PC marketing for two years prior to becoming a physics teacher to rural youth via BUD (big ugly dish) satellite. For the next 12 years, Camille produced and anchored live television programming for NASA and PBS, connecting kids with experts on topics as varied as orbiting astronauts and Antarctic penguin researchers.
Since 2005, she has taught video game programming, math enrichment, tech mashup, and future cities engineering at the Alexander Dawson School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Additionally, she teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), as well as speaks frequently at professional conferences.
She has served on the editorial board of the Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School journal (published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) and written lessons for the NCTM Illuminations website. In 2012, she was selected by the Gaming2Learn initiative to pilot-teach Survival Master, engineering gaming software developed through a multimillion-dollar National Science Foundation grant.
She earned her advanced degrees in curriculum and instruction with her doctoral research at UNLV focused on tween coding. Camille currently serves as Director ...
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