Bishop O’Connell High School faculty member Melissa Pore has been selected by the D.W. Steele Memorial Chapter of the Air and Space Forces Association (AFA) as their 2022 Teacher of the Year, and then named the AFA’s 2022 Virginia State Teacher of the Year.
Linda McMahon, president of the Virginia AFA, and Mike Maxwell, D.W. Steele Chapter vice president for aerospace education, presented Pore with the awards on May 17, citing her “achievements in advancing and motivating students and young people toward the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines,” school officials said.
Pore has been an engineering and technology teacher at Bishop O’Connell for the past five years.