Rhonda Brown is the STEM Project Manager for Lake County Schools in Florida. She taught middle and high school science in Indiana and in Florida. Brown developed the Florida state curriculum for Forensic Sciences I and co-authored the Forensic Science II curriculum. She received her Master's in Education degree from Indiana Wesleyan and Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern Indiana. In 2004, she received National Board Certification followed by East Ridge High School Teacher of the Year Award and the 2005 Disney Teacherrific Award for Outstanding Educational Program. In 2010, she was named Central Florida STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Teacher of the Year by the Air Force Association. Rhonda Brown has been a presenter at several local, state, and national education conferences including the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and Florida Association for Science Teachers (FAST). For the 2011-12 school year, she served an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Division at the National Science Foundation.