Myra Halpin

Myra Halpin, Ph.D. is a science educator with more than fifty years of teaching experience, thirty of which were at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. For eleven years prior to retiring, she coached Conrad Finalist teams. After retiring, she is serving as a Conrad Challenge Judge. She has witnessed the evolution of the Conrad Challenge from the first year of national competition to the current international competition. She was South Carolina’s selection for the 1985 Teacher in Space and has work on several NASA project and had student experiments fly on Sounding Rockets and Zero-G flights. Myra helped in the founding of the Kamnoetvidya Science Academy, Wang Chon, Thailand by serving as teacher trainer and Chemistry Curriculum Advisor 2014- present. She is National Board Certified and was a Presidential Teacher of Science in 1994. She has served as Dean of Science at NCSSM; the Executive Director of the NC Student Academy of Science as part of the AAAS student program; ACS – Chemistry Olympic Committee; Founding faculty for Challenger Center; Chaired committee for North Carolina Chemistry Curriculum develop; authored 5 journal articles; and loves working with students.