Tennessee high school teacher wins $50,000 Amazon award
Published 10:26 am Monday, July 6, 2020
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NASHVILLE (AP) — A Tennessee high school teacher and Tennessee State University alumna has won a $50,000 award from Amazon.
First-year teacher Shasta Charlton is a 2020 Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award recipient. She is a computer science teacher and Robotics Club staffer at Whites Creek Comprehensive High School in Nashville.
Tennessee State said in a news release that Charlton didn’t know much about robots, but she and her students still managed to build and code one to win the award. The award includes $25,000 for the school and $25,000 in school supplies.
Charlton says although she doesn’t have a computer science degree, she used YouTube videos and books to work it out.
