via the ARRL: Zoe Rodriguez Named 2025 Craigie Memorial Educator

Zoe Rodriguez, a teacher at the Raymond School in Franksville, Wisconsin — near Milwaukee — has been named the 2025 Carter Craigie, N3AO, Memorial Educator. Rodriguez serves as the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) teacher as well as the school’s technology integrator and library media specialist. She also started a club for 3rd through 8th graders called “Girls Who Code.” She attended the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) at ARRL Headquarters from October 6 – 9, 2025.

Rodriguez, who previously was a Fulbright Scholar who taught English in Colombia, is concurrently participating in the Teacher Innovator Institute, a two-year program from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. She’s excited to integrate amateur radio and wireless technology into her broad experience she shares with students. “[TI] would provide tangible ways to help my students engage in critical thinking and solve real world problems… This program would allow me to create highly engaging and hands-on projects where my students could work collaboratively and build their communication skills. This will not only fit into, but strengthen, my curriculum as I currently teach the engineering design process, circuits, coding, robotics, 3D printing, and cardboard construction,” said Rodriguez.

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