Christina O'Malley is a New York State Master Teacher Emerita and earned her BS in Technology Education from Buffalo State and MS in Differentiated Instruction with Gifted Education extension from Canisius College. She began her teaching career in 2006 at her alma mater, Akron Central, teaching high school technology and engineering. Her passion resides in coaching middle school students in building creative, critical, and self-regulated thinking skills to create solutions to tomorrow's problems; STEM is the perfect canvas to practice this. In her Creative Design & Engineering class, students learn science, math, and technological skills to collaboratively engineer solutions to given design challenges. She is an active learner and facilitator of NYSCATE. Christina is an engaged member of Akron Rotary Club and adviser to the high school Interact Club; both service organizations that take action to create lasting change in her community and globally.