SmartTALK with Sharon Wensel Bowers, acclaimed science educator

McDaniel’s SmartTALK series
returns with notable alumni participating in an on-stage conversation with
McDaniel president Roger Casey.

A
distinguished science teacher, Sharon Wensel Bowers is currently
educator-in-residence at the National Institute of Aerospace. She received both
a bachelor’s degree in biology and education in 1978 and master’s degree in
special education in 1984 from McDaniel College.

A
teacher in Virginia Beach City Public Schools, she has taught science for more
than 25 years in Virginia and Maryland, and has been recognized as a Secondary
Science Presidential Award Winner for Virginia. She is an instructor for the
Mickelson ExxonMobil Teacher’s Academy, writes activities and trains teachers
for the AIMS Education Foundation and has been a writer and reviewer for
Harcourt Science. She developed and teaches McDaniel’s elementary STEM
education graduate certificate program.