Mickie Flores teaches science and algebra to grades 6-8 in Consolidated School District 13 in Hancock County.
Flores, who joined Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School in 2011 after a career in New York, was named a Maine Governor’s STEM Fellow in 2012.
Every two weeks Flores and her students videoconference with faculty from Vanderbilt University as part of the Beaming STEM Labs/AspirNaut program. She is also a lead teacher for the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Lunder New Naturalist Program, through which her students join 20 schools across Maine collecting, sharing and responding to biodiversity data via the Lunder website.
In New York, Flores taught for more than 16 years in Canton Central School District and was an adjunct faculty member at State University New York in Potsdam for almost 10 years.
Flores has a bachelor’s degree in animal sciences from Cornell University in New York and a master’s of science in secondary education/biology from Elmira College in New York.
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