Pat Yongpradit

Innovative Technology Educator

Pioneering teacher wants virtual worlds to lead to real careers for students

Posted on | March 24, 2011 | 8 Comments

By Andrew Ujifusa, Staff Writer, Montgomery County Gazette

“Yongpradit has created a digital learning environment where students don’t simply use computers to look up facts and figures. They confront or create problems to solve, and then use not just their software knowledge but their ability to craft interesting environments and find solutions within them.”

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Role Models and Camaraderie Keeps Girls in CS

Posted on | March 3, 2011 | No Comments

By Sam Lemonick

“If you could spend the rest of your career staring at a computer surrounded by antisocial nerds, would you? Neither would female students at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. That’s what Computer Science (CS) teacher Pat Yongpradit found …” Read the full article here at underthemicroscope.com

Featured in Australian Teacher Magazine

Posted on | February 22, 2011 | No Comments

Real-Life Teachers You Wish You Had

Posted on | February 3, 2011 | No Comments

By Brittany Maling

“Mr. Yongpradit has been successful at interesting young women in computer programming, a demographic normally averse to what is often considered by their peers to be nerdy and for boys only.”

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Silver Spring Teacher One of Top Teacher’s in the World

Posted on | December 10, 2010 | No Comments

By Courtney Rhodes

Silver Spring’s own Pat Yongpradit from Springbrook High School earned an Innovative Teacher award, one of only 12 teachers worldwide to receive this award this year. Read more

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