PIE helps create meaningful education memories

In late June, Vashon High School teachers Kate Dunagan and Kathleen Regovich used a Vashon Partners in Education (PIE) grant to host a collaborative presentation with scientists in the classroom.

Dunagan, who teaches jewelry making, and Regovich, a chemistry teacher, designed the program to increase STEM instruction to technical-education students and to provide chemistry students with the opportunity to learn about real-world chemistry applications.

The guest teachers — Dr. Joshua Marceau and Natalia Batchenkova, who are both scientists and metallurgists, brought deep expertise with chemistry and metallurgy.

Before working as a silversmith and as an educator of science and art, Marceau worked as a biomedical research scientist and virologist for the National Institutes of Health and th