Sad and happy feelings here at the Generation YES office as our own Emily McCartan has moved to Washington DC to work in the new Obama administration.
Many of you know Emily. She was a GenYES student at Washington Middle School in Olympia, Washington. She presented at the Kentucky KETS conference as an 8th grader and while in high school presented at several NECC conferences. She helped plan and run the ISTE Youth Leadership Symposium at the Chicago NECC in 2001. After graduating from Lewis and Clark College, she spent a year teaching in the Virgin Islands. Returning to Olympia, Emily came to work for Generation YES, responsible for grant implementations (like NYSSTL) and the transition of our GenYES curriculum to GenYES 2.0.
Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for the entire nation, Emily just took a job offer to be Assistant to the Associate Director of National Security at the Office of Management and Budget. We love seeing GenYES students succeed and take full credit for Emily’s success! (Just kidding – she’s brilliant and Washington had better watch out for her!)
But now, perhaps for the last time, we once again get to embarrass Emily with the photos…Emily then and now.
Sylvia
