Principal Investigator. Directs the curriculum development for the teacher professional development activities and girls' camp activities for summer 1999.

Tel: 919-715-1862, Fax: 919-715-0517
Email: mkestner@dpi.state.nc.us

Co-Investigator. Provides the curriculum reform and state testing perspectives of the State Department of Public Instruction to ensure that Girls on Track is aligned and supports North Carolina's educational initiatives.

Tel: 919-829-8481, Fax: 919-829-8470
Email: knightv@meredith.edu

Co-Investigator. Provides technical assistance in the development of the curriculum materials for teachers and students. She will direct the interface between Girls on Track and the Math Mentoring Program in winter 2000.

Tel: 919-850-1963, Fax: 919-515-8947
Email: donmcgu@aol.com

Co-Investigator. Provides the link between the project and the Wake County Public Schools and technical assistance for the curriculum development

Tel: 919-515-6363, Fax: 919-515-6891
Email: robinson@poe.coe.ncsu.edu

Co-Principal Investigator. Directs the curriculum and professional development activities for the guidance counselors during summer 1999

Tel: 919-515-7886, Fax: 919-515-6497, or 7896
Email: vouk@csc.ncsu.edu

Co-Principal Investigator. Directs the acquisition of technical resources for the project and the computer interface between the project's curriculum, schools, and evaluation. Research in the area of network-based education, adaptive computer-based learning, and math software.

Tel: 919-834-7547, Fax: 919-834-1564
Email: achowe@aol.com

Consultant. A Science Education professor with teaching and administrative experiences at Syracuse University, NC State University and University of Maryland, is responsible for the external evaluation of Girls on Track. Additionally, she collaborates with the principal investigators on the project's research questions.

Tel: 919-515-2013, Fax: 919-515-1063
Email: karen_dawkins@ncsu.edu

Project Manager. Assists the principal investigator in scheduling, communicating, and organizing all Girls on Track activities. She also provides technical assistance in the development of the curriculum materials.

Tel: 919-515-1062, Fax: 919-515-1063
Email: eileen@poe.coe.ncsu.edu

Tel: 919-515-6018, Fax: 919-515-6497
Email: tmbarnes@unity.ncsu.edu

Graduate Student working on Ph.D. in Computer Science. Assists the investigators' efforts to integrate technology into the summer curriculum for teachers and girls and the fall tutoring program on the Web. Also she will assist in the summer professional development and camp activities

Graduate student in Mathematices Education
Research interests include student understanding of proportional reasoning concepts and the use agile software methodologies

Graduate Student in Science Education
Currently working as a research assistant for the MiddleData Project
Interested in the nature of science, testing, and science education policy

Ph.D. North Carolina State University 2004
Researched geared towards how metaphors influence mathematics comprehension
One of her favorite hobbies is helping young children play with advanced mathematics.

Graduate Student in Math Education at North Carolina State University
Research interests are in studying the correlation between math teachers' subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge.

Graduate Student in Mathematics Education and Research Assistant
Middle School Mathematics Teacher
NC State NCM2 Lead Teacher

Doctoral student in Science Education

Currently working on Visualization In Science Education through a GlaxoSmithKline grant