Major: Food Science and Human Nutrition

Minor: UF Teach Science

Graduate: 2013

Ashlie Kinnaman is recent graduate from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. She graduated May 2013 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition with a specialization in Nutritional Sciences and a minor inUFTeach Science. Through this minor, she has interned at a local high school in Gainesville, Gainesville High School, by teaching a 9th grade pre-AICE biology class two periods a day and assisted other students and teachers in the UFTeach classrooms through peer mentoring. In her time at UF, Ashlie has been heavily involved in Florida Alternative Breaks, participating in a total of three week-long volunteer trips and becoming a part of the executive board as an issue developer her senior year. In addition, she volunteered as a supplemental instruction leader for biochemistry where she held biweekly review sessions of the material for a group of 10 students. This combined with her field experiences in the UFTeach minor have sparked a strong passion for teaching. Ashlie hopes to inspire student excitement in science as well as to increase their scientific literacy and critical thinking so that they are more than prepared for higher education. This Fall, Ashlie will begin teaching 8th grade science at Robert O. Gibson Middle School in Las Vegas, NV as a Teach For America corps member. She owes many thanks to the Noyce Scholarship Program because it has aided her in completing the teaching minor and internships, which has taught her many necessary skills and tools for teaching science specifically, in addition to completing required certification tests.