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Melissa J. B. Rogers

Melissa Rogers develops NGSS-aligned elementary science curriculum for the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Melissa earned a BS and MS in Geophysics at Virginia Tech, with a focus on earthquake seismology. She has classroom teaching experience at the high school, community college, and four-year college levels. 

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