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Erin Butler: PA Cyber Teacher Spotlight

Erin Butler has been teaching chemistry and Workshop uses an Adafruit Feather to built relationships with colleges to use
physics for 17 years, first in a traditional teach python coding and circuitry to design their laboratories in order expand the
brick and mortar building, and then as a boards with sensors to collect data and run experiences for PA Cyber students.
PA Cyber teacher. Mrs. Butler grew up in experiments. Students apply these skills These opportunities allow high school
Doylestown, Pa to design and test their coding and sensor students to step onto a college campus
and attended Grove circuitry in their homes with the kits that and perform a lab in a variety of science
City College where are provided by PA Cyber. backgrounds (microbiology, invertebrate
she received a One of Mrs. Butler’s greatest passions zoology, physiology and physics).
B.S. in Chemistry. is exploring how to best adapt science According to Mrs. Butler, “The most
After working as a lab experiences to the virtual classroom. rewarding part of teaching for me is
chemistry teacher Over the past several years she has interacting with my students and being
at Shenango a part of the new and exciting world that
High school near virtual instruction allows.”
New Castle Pa, Mrs. Butler decided to
start her family and began working as a
virtual classroom teacher for the then new
Pennsylvania Cyber Charter school. She
immediately fell in love with the technology
and the exciting flexibility that a new
approach to classroom learning was making
possible with virtual instruction.
While at PA Cyber, Mrs. Butler has served
as the Science Club Moderator for the past
eight years and has been instrumental in SPECIAL
the Make It Academy which promotes
STEAM education through workshops and
hands on learning. Her Project High Altitude ADVERTISING

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