Maridee StanleyMaridee graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, then received her Juris Doctor, and practiced law until the family business of teaching beckoned. At an age when most people retire, Maridee obtained a multiple-subject teaching credentia and a Master's degree in STEM Education. In addition to her teaching job, she ran after-school STEM clubs in science, engineering, coding, and robotics, coached many science fair winners, wrote science musicals, and produced popular STEAM Nights. Quantum physics and atomic structure have been lifelong interests, and she followed their development closely. "When CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, I was one of the nerds who stayed up into the wee hours watching the data release too excited to sleep." Read More Read Less