Durham Academy Upper School – Durham, NC
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Howard (teacher): Howard has been a high school teacher since 1984. He
has worked in both the public and private schools of North Carolina and
Illinois. Howard’s teaching responsibilities have included Astronomy,
Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, AP Environmental Science, Geology,
Physics, and AP Physics. He has been a coach of football, basketball,
track and golf during his teaching years and also has taught in and
directed a math and science summer enrichment camp called the Summer
Institute for the last 12 years. Howard earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in
Geology from Furman University and the University of North Carolina
respectively. Before becoming a teacher, he worked for five years as a
gold and uranium mineral exploration geologist.
Adam (student): Adam is a junior at Durham Academy. He is the middle
child of a family of five, born and raised in North Carolina. He has an
older sister who is a freshman at Williams College and a younger brother
who is in 7th grade. Adam has three main interests that he pursues
outside of school: Science Olympiad, drums, and running. He has
participated on the Durham Academy Science Olympiad team for 4 years,
two years of which the team has gone to the national competition. Adam’s
passion has been the building events (Wright Stuff and Mission Possible)
because he has always been enthralled by engineering, as well as science
in general. Playing drums is a release for Adam from stress and a way to
detach from the world and live inside the music for a while. Running has
a similar purpose. Adam also has trained with his father for the Marine
Corps Marathon, which they ran last fall. They will start training again
this summer to run a marathon in December 2003. Adam’s family has always
been very supportive of his interests as well as an integral part of his
life.
Craig (student): Craig is an insatiably curious guy. His room is filled
with books of all genres and on many subjects: novels of all sorts, Dave
Barry, Greek philosophy, Dilbert comics, linguistics texts, books about
diseases and epidemiology, poetry, the short stories of Philip K. Dick,
science fiction, and general lowbrow escapist stuff. He wants to be a
linguist and will be taking an immersion course in Chinese this summer
for the fun of it. He competes every year in the Science Olympiad, he
plays trumpet, and he participates in Model United Nations.
