Mr. Robert Jr. Gotwals MSEd

A member of the NCSSM science faculty since 2006, Bob Gotwals has developed the largest program in the computational sciences at the high school level in the country. He teaches both in the residential and online programs, providing students with opportunities to study a wide variety of scientific topics from a computational approach. He is a retired member of the U.S. Navy and has worked in a wide variety of environments, including supercomputing, military medicine, and military intelligence, and has served as both a Braille teacher/transcriber and as a professional sign language interpreter. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from East Carolina University and a dual master's degree in science education from the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology (National Technical Institute for the Deaf).