2021
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Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award
Katsuyo Thornton -
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- Title: L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
- Affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI United States
- Quote: It is an incredible honor to receive the TMS Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award, named after two wonderful, pioneering materials scientists whose legacy continues to live in the materials science community. TMS has been my professional home since I began materials research. It is where I have found a welcoming community that inspires and fosters new, exciting ideas. I am grateful to be part of TMS, where I have benefitted from its culture of inclusion.
- Citation: For her dedication to incorporating computational materials science into undergraduate curriculums by leading the development and implementation of the Integrated Computational Materials Education Workshop.
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2020
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Educator Award
Andrea Hodge -
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- Title: Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs
- Affiliation: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Quote: TMS has been my home society for over 20 years, it is the place where I meet my colleagues and closest friends as well as the place where I send my graduate students to their first conference. My TMS membership has allowed me to participate at numerous conferences and events that highlight my work while learning about new and interesting research from other members. My TMS membership is an international passport to the world of materials science. It is an honor to receive this award named after two of my main role models: Julia and Hans Weertman.
- Citation: For her outstanding contributions to educating and mentoring students in materials science and engineering.
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2020
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Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award
Andrea Hodge -
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- Title: Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs
- Affiliation: University of Southern California,
- Quote: TMS has been my home society for over 20 years, it is the place where I meet my colleagues and closest friends as well as the place where I send my graduate students to their first conference. My TMS membership has allowed me to participate at numerous conferences and events that highlight my work while learning about new and interesting research from other members. My TMS membership is an international passport to the world of materials science. It is an honor to receive this award named after two of my main role models: Julia and Hans Weertman.
- Citation: For her outstanding contributions to educating and mentoring students in materials science and engineering.
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2019
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Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award
David Van Aken -
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- Title: Curators’ Teaching Professor
- Affiliation: Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO
- Quote: Receiving the Julia & Johannes Weertman Educator award is a great honor and it is quite humbling to see my name included with the distinguished names of past recipients of the TMS Educator award. Many of those awarded previously had a direct impact upon my own education both as a student and in academia. TMS was the gateway for my academic career and I will always be grateful to TMS for providing me with that opportunity. Throughout these past years, membership in TMS has provided the critical knowledge required to be an effective and relevant educator.
- Citation: For over three decades of exemplary education of students in physical metallurgy and the development of innovative technologies to produce next generation high strength steels.
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2018
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Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award
Garry Warren -
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- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Affiliation: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Quote: I am very humbled with this recognition from my peers at TMS. I am especially happy and grateful that it is for doing something that I loved. I am truly honored to be recognized along with previous distinguished recipients including my mentor Milton Wadsworth. Clearly, I would not be receiving this award without the lessons and knowledge handed down to me from previous educators and mentors who instilled in me a deep appreciation for teaching. I am also grateful for the example set by Johannes & Julia Weertman whose names now grace this award.
- Citation: For nearly 40 years of extensive, far-reaching, and innovative contributions ranging from development of materials science curriculum for middle school students to authoring a corrosion software program.
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2017
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Educator Award
Ramana Reddy -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Quote: I am honored and humbled to receive this award. I am honored to be among those distinguished prior recipients of this award. I love teaching students and collaborating with researchers form all over the world. TMS is one of the most vibrant materials societies in the world. I am very pleased to be a member of it. TMS has played a significant role in my professional growth and providing the opportunities to develop contacts with friends, and materials and engineering professionals world wide.
- Citation: For his more than 36 years of teaching to a large number of students, writing an undergraduate textbook, and his research contributions in phase equilibria and thermodynamics of materials.
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2017
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Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award
Ramana Reddy -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
- Quote: I am honored and humbled to receive this award. I am honored to be among those distinguished prior recipients of this award. I love teaching students and collaborating with researchers form all over the world. TMS is one of the most vibrant materials societies in the world. I am very pleased to be a member of it. TMS has played a significant role in my professional growth and providing the opportunities to develop contacts with friends, and materials and engineering professionals world wide.
- Citation: For his more than 36 years of teaching to a large number of students, writing an undergraduate textbook, and his research contributions in phase equilibria and thermodynamics of materials.
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2016
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Educator Award
Challapalli Suryanarayana -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
- Quote: I feel privileged and honored to receive this highly prestigious award. I have always been deeply impressed by many of the opportunities provided to its members by TMS. I have been a member of TMS for over 25 years now and have enriched my materials knowledge through the well-read journals, attending technical meetings, and networking opportunities provided during the meetings. I am also grateful to many of my current and former students for giving me an opportunity to share the excitement of working in the continuously evolving field of materials science and engineering.
- Citation: For his over four decades of teaching to a large number of students, writing of popular textbooks, and his research contributions to non-equilibrium processing of materials.
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2015
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Educator Award
Guenter Gottstein -
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- Title: Director of Institute
- Affiliation: RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
- Quote: TMS is definitely one of the most important international professional societies in materials science and engineering. I truly appreciate the large variety of topics offered at TMS conferences and the excellent opportunities to interact with colleagues in TMS committees, in topical conference symposia and beyond.
- Citation: For his sustained contributions to the education of physical metallurgy and materials science in the last 35 years through teaching, advising, and book writing.
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2014
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Educator Award
Donald Sadoway -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Citation: For seminal teaching of materials chemistry, kinetics, and electrochemistry to materials science and engineering students and the broader population at large.
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2014
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Educator Award
Hong Yong Sohn -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- Quote: I am deeply honored to receive the TMS Educator Award, which has a special meaning because it is a culmination of my teaching career in its entirety. It is an added bonus to be recognized for doing what I enjoy most doing. Ever since high school, I always wanted to teach. It is humbling to join the list of distinguished past recipients, who are or were giants of our profession. Membership in TMS has been essential to me in providing a career-long opportunity to exchange ideas and form professional bonds with colleagues of similar technical interests.
- Citation: For exemplary contributions to metallurgy education through outstanding teaching and mentoring combined with volumes of scientific research publications that have enhanced the understanding of metallurgical principles and applications for generations of metallurgists.
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2013
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Educator Award
Marc Meyers -
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- Affiliation: University of California, La Jolla, CA
- Quote: This recognition is dear to my heart, since it captures 44 years of teaching at universities in Brazil, the US, Asia, and Europe. I am humbled to be named among such great educators. Teaching the young generations through classroom, laboratory, and field work has been the greatest source of accomplishment in my career. This award, coming from TMS, my primary society, is of immense significance to me.
- Citation: For his teaching of materials science and engineering to many thousands of students worldwide, and for his contributions to the field of mechanical behavior of materials.
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2012
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Educator Award
Marc DeGraef -
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- Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Quote: I am honored to receive the 2012 TMS Educator Award. While education has always been one my passions, I feel privileged to have a job in which I am expected to share knowledge with and explain concepts to the next generations of scientists and engineers, whether in the classroom or in the form of text books and web sites. TMS has played and will continue to play an important role in my educational and scientific interactions with the materials community.
- Citation: For significant contributions to university education via educational modules and simulation tools, highly acclaimed textbooks and associated websites on TEM and the structure of materials as well as the development of remote control facilities for training students in the use of electron microscopes.
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2011
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Educator Award
Krishan Chawla -
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- Title: Professor
- Affiliation: University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
- Quote: “I feel humble and honored by this award. I’ve been a member of TMS since 1965, a long time professional association. Teaching is a passionate subject for me, and this recognition from TMS has a special value to me.”
- Citation: For seminal contributions and text books written for the education and training of students in mechanical behavior and composites
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2010
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Educator Award
John Moore -
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- Title: Trustees' Professor & Head of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Dept
- Affiliation: Colorado School of Mines,
- Quote: “I am very honored to be nominated and awarded the 2010 Educator Award. I have been a member of TMS since 1979 and consider TMS to be the “professional home” of metallurgical and materials engineers worldwide. TMS has provided me with the communication, networking, and professional interaction that I have needed for the past 30 years and also provides excellent support and interaction for materials in higher education.”
- Citation: For his sustained exemplary contributions to the advancement of education and research in metallurgical and materials engineering over the past 30 years.
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2009
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Educator Award
Jonathan Dantzig -
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- Title: Retired Mechanical Engineering Professor
- Affiliation: University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
- Quote: “When I look at the list of former recipients of the TMS Educator Award, I see the names of educators for whom I have the greatest respect, and indeed whom I always looked up to as leaders. I am deeply honored to be included in the lives and careers of students and colleagues and I hope that I have been, and will be, able to do so.”
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2008
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Educator Award
Robert Snyder -
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- Title: Chair School of Materials Science & Engineering
- Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Quote: “TMS is one of the world’s principal materials societies and has figured prominently in providing critical for the development of modern materials. I am deeply honored in being chosen for this Societies Educator Award.”
- Citation: For his leadership and contributions to education in materials science and engineering.
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2007
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Educator Award
Lawrence Murr -
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- Title: Murchison Professor
- Affiliation: University of Texas, El Paso, TX
- Citation: For enthusiastic and creative dedication to education of undergraduate and graduate students through teaching, research, and book writing.
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2006
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Educator Award
John Hager -
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- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Affiliation: Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
- Citation: For his many years of exemplary service to metallurgical engineering education at the Colorado School of Mines, with TMS and ABET, as a teacher, adviser and colleague
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2005
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Educator Award
Robert DeHoff -
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- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Affiliation: University of Florida,
- Quote: “TMS has always been my home society, though I have had long-standing memberships in ASM, ACerS, IMS, MRS and ISS (stereology). TMS meetings have always been the primary place for presenting my research and seeking insights from others in my areas of interest. It is thus an honor and heartfelt pleasure to receive this expression of recognition from my home society for my nearly forty-five years of dedication to teaching, research, advising and evaluating students and programs.”
- Citation: For years of dedication committed to the individual growth of students through teaching, researching, writing of texts, and strengthening of curricula through accreditation activities.
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2004
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Educator Award
Subhash Mahajan -
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- Title: Professor & Chair Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering
- Affiliation: Arizona State University,
- Quote: “This award means a lot to me for two reasons. First, accidentally I am joining an elite group of materials educators who have made substantial contributions to teaching. Second, my peers and colleagues recognize my contributions to the application of materials science principles to teaching and research on electronic materials. TMS and EMC meetings were the catalyst in achieving my goals and providing me forums for the dissemination of new observations and concept.”
- Citation: "For establishing electronic materials programs at Carnegie Mellon and Arizona State Universities and major achievements in textbook writing and journal, handbook, and encyclopedia editorship."
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2003
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Educator Award
Robert Rapp -
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- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Affiliation: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Quote: “I have enjoyed an active participation in TMS since I was a student. My societal interactions have led to the gain of innumerable professional colleagues and friends. Relative to teaching and education, I have also been fortunate to collaborate over four decades with hundreds of undergraduate, graduate students, and post-docs at The Ohio State University. In the teaching of students and researchers, I always tried to insist on correct and effective writing and speaking. I appreciate the TMS recognition via The Educator Award.”
- Citation: "For his dedication and life-long commitment to education and training of students through teaching and innovative research over a broad spectrum of materials and processes."
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2002
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Educator Award
Alan Lawley -
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- Title: A. W. Grosvenor Professor of Materials Engineering
- Affiliation: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
- Quote: “This award is a true milestone culminating a career as an engineering educator that spans more than three decades. As a former president of TMS, it is an achievement that provides deep satisfaction – a ‘passing grade’ in my chosen profession. The endorsement of former students (now TMS members) is also a cause for much pride. Membership in TMS is a passport to lifelong professional involvement in materials science and engineering.”
- Citation: "For his many and varied contributions to high-quality and innovative education in the classroom, with his research and with industry."
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2001
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Educator Award
Lawrence Van Vlack -
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- Quote: “The aspect of this award that would have pleased my father the most is the recognition as educator. Although Dad took great satisfaction in the part he played establishing the discipline of materials engineering, he considered teaching as his most important role.” Laura R. Van Vlack-Ailes, Daughter
- Citation: "For outstanding accomplishments as an engineering educator and administrator, author of seminal introductory materials textbooks, and major contributor to the understanding of non-metallic inclusions in steels."
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2000
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Educator Award
Richard Hertzberg -
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- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Affiliation: Lehigh University,
- Citation: "For teaching, research and textbook contributions regarding the fracture mechanics and fatigue of metals and polymers and development of pre-college and post-graduate short courses."
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1999
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Educator Award
Merton Flemings -
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- Title: Professor Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
- Quote: "No award could be more meaningful to a professor than this one for education. I am deeply honored."
- Citation: "For outstanding contributions to the unification of the field of materials science and engineering and education of leaders in materials processing and solidification."
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1998
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Educator Award
Reza Abbaschian -
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- Title: Professor & Chair, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Affiliation: University of Florida, Florida
- Quote: "An important aspect of educating our students is to enable them to relate engineering fundamentals they acquire in the classroom to industrial applications. TMS, as a society that covers both the scientific and engineering aspects of materials, provides a natural professional home for educators such as myself and our students."
- Citation: "Outstanding educator, leader, researcher, and inventor who provides a modern standard for today's academician."
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1997
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Educator Award
Jerome Cohen -
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- Title: Dean, Englehardt Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
- Affiliation: Northwestern University,
- Quote: "My TMS membership has been the main focus of my professional affiliations since I was an undergraduate--now more than 40 years. The opportunities to hear about research and help organize sessions has been very rewarding. While I have been an educational administrator, I am pleased that some of the innovations in education that I was able to start are being recognized. Actually, it is the faculty who have to want to do these things and have done them; I just find the money."
- Citation: "For training several generations of materials scientists in the use of diffraction techniques to study the structure of materials."
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1996
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Educator Award
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1995
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1994
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George Dieter - Details Not Available
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1993
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1992
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1991
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1990
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Educator Award
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1989
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Educator Award
Milton Wadsworth - Details Not Available
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1988
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Educator Award
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1987
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Educator Award
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1986
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Educator Award
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