Over his nearly 20 years living and teaching in Seattle, Scott has served as a teacher, curriculum author, project-based learning leader and coach, codeveloper of the school’s mentor program, department head, administrator, founder and faculty advisor to Science Olympiad, Green Energy, and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics teams, etc. In each aspect of my work, he puts students in roles where they are agents of their own futures, whether they are designing heat shields to protect chocolate bunnies from the heat of re-entry (the results of which they present to practicing thermal protection system engineers), designing solar-powered, high-torque simulated Martian rovers, designing and launching experiments to the edge of space aboard high-altitude balloons, or racing full-sized solar-powered cars at the National Solar Car Challenge (national champions in 2019 and 2021). He is proud of his part helping to make RAHS one of the premier schools in Washington and grateful to have been honored for those contributions (National Aviation Hall of Fame 2019; AIAA Educator Achievement 2020; National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education 2020).
