OWEN ANDERSON Owen is a 13 year old electronics and computer enthusiast. His love of these subjects has allowed him to become a guru at an early age. He looks forward to sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm with other children.
Owen will be assisted by his mother, Julie Anderson. Julie is a certified teacher who has been assisting her children with their education for 4 years. She has also coached First Lego League teams, taught computer skills classes and taught Lego enrichment classes and camps.
Joseph Couvillion
Phone: 678-207-9937
I have been playing chess for 30 years and 28 years in tournaments held by the United States Chess Federation. I have 15 years of chess teaching experience in the Atlanta area. The last year I have opened my own Company and also run tournaments in Forsyth County.
FREYA H. FITZPATRICK
E-mail: FreyaFitzpatrick(at)gmail.com
Freya Fitzpatrick has her bachelors and masters degrees in education. She has 25 years experience in education, including bilingual instruction in Sweden, public and private education in the United States, substitute teaching, tutoring, and home schooling their two children from Kindergarten through 12th grade.
She has lead two 4-H groups, been the deputy commander for cadets in a local Civil Air Patrol (CAP) squadron and the Arkansas CAP State director of Aerospace Education. She has prepared students for state and national level public speaking contests including Voices of Democracy, and NASA, Optimist Club, 4-H and Tropicana contests. She has worked as a free-lance journalist for a variety of medical publications as well as the Chicago Tribune-Sun Sentinel “Community and Religion” section. She works part-time editing Neo-Latin theological texts from the 1700’s.
She is a private pilot, fluent in four languages, has lived and worked in the United States, South Africa, Sweden, Germany and the Ukraine and now lives at home with her husband of 23+ years.
CANDACE GORDIJN
E-mail: candace(at)fitnessinharmony.com Candace Gordijn has a B.S. in Computer Science, and is an AFAA certified Personal Trainer, Yoga and Pilates instructor. She has been teaching fitness classes and doing in-home personal training for 10 years. Classes include Youth Fitness classes at local private Montessori schools, Yoga and Pilates classes at private businesses, and at the Forsyth County Parks. Her philosophy on health is that fitness should fit in harmony with your life, balancing challenges, celebrating success, and nurturing your spirit. As a home school mom of two teens, the pursuit of learning and the practice of patience are her daily mantras.
JULIE GRANTIER
E-mail: grantier(at)bellsouth.net Julie Grantier received her B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Georgia Tech, with additional graduate work in both education and psychology. She also holds an active master’s level teaching certificate in Georgia. A general love of knowledge is her first passion and sharing that knowledge with others runs a close second. She has had extensive tutoring and teaching experience over the past 20 years. Previous teaching jobs include physics at a college level (Kennesaw), statistics and programming at college and post-graduate levels (Georgia Tech) and high school physics, chemistry and physical science (Cobb County). In addition, she has worked in computer programming as a consultant both at Georgia Tech and in the private sector. Her most recent full-time job has been homeschooling her own 11 year old son.
LESLIE KELLEY
E-mail: lstk(at)bellsouth.net Leslie Kelley has been teaching drama and directing children’s theatre in the Atlanta area for over 20 years. She was a teaching artist at the Alliance Theatre for 15 years. She taught drama and dance at Roswell Recreation and Parks for 12 years and has directed 7 shows for Curtain Call Youth Players in Marietta. Leslie is the Artistic Director for the Sprouts (plays for young children) program at Kudzu Playhouse. Most recently she developed the CREATE program for at risk teenagers doing drama with and for pre-school students at the Child Development Association in Roswell.
Leslie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre from Florida Southern College and a Master’s Degree in Communications from Wichita State University. Before teaching and directing she performed in over 50 shows around the country.
Leslie has been married for 22 years and has 2 daughters – Page, a junior in high school and Lauren, a junior at UGA. The family pet is Rudy the cat who is 12 years old.
KIM KOERNER
E-mail: kak3571(at)yahoo.com
Kim Koerner is a graduate of Lanier Technical school. Kim worked in the accounting field and now works full time as a homeschooling mom of 2 boys and gives horseback riding lessons. She is a Cubscout den leader and attends Cumming First United Methodist Church where she teachs Sunday School and is a member of United Methodist Women. She loves animals, reading, scrapbooking, gardening and spending time with her family and friends.
CINDY RITTENHOUSE
E-mail: rittenhousec(at)mindspring.com Cindy Rittenhouse has a Humanities degree (triple major in English/History/French) from Michigan State and a Master’s degree in Literature from the same university. Her specialty was Canadian literature and she had a Pulitzer Prize winning author and the then Poet Laureat of Canada sitting on her Master’s Committee. She spent the first fifteen years after college as an advertising writer and copy chief doing retail: national and international magazine print ads and television campaigns for such clients as Sears (for Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day), Valvoline and Formica. She has taught creative writing at the college level. Someone out there has seen her short stories in regional publications….her novel is still in a drawer.
AN ASPEN ROBERTS
E-mail - anaspenart(at)yahoo.com
An Aspen Roberts is a graduate from the University of Southern California with degrees in English, history, philosophy and minors in mathematics and physics. She is homeschooling mom of two young boys. She also studied computer programming at the University of California, Berkley and art at Honolulu Academy of Arts in Honolulu, Hawaii. An also had the honor of being a French translator at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
TERESA STANTON
E-mail: teresastanton(at)notnats.com Teresa Stanton is a veteran homeschooler with 12 years’ experience teaching history, science and art to children of all ages. She has a very supportive husband, four extremely intelligent children, two beautiful granddaughters, and one wandering yellow lab.
CHRISTY STROMBERG
E-mail: xtstromberg(at)gmail.com Christy Stromberg has been tutoring math since she was 7 years old, working her way up to tutoring high school and college level mathematics while at Georgia State. She has spent the last 6 years teaching her own children and having even more math fun teaching homeschool classes.
CARL TESTA
E-mail: carltesta(at)comcast.net Carl Testa graduated from Indiana University School of Music as a voice major. He studied voice with Camilla Williams, Walter Cassell and Carlos Montanae. He also studied jazz piano improvisation and theory with David Baker. He started playing the piano at the age of six. He studied jazz piano with Ted Howe from 1990-2000. He has been teaching private piano and voice since 1990. As a solo artist, he has been performing throughout Atlanta and beyond since 1988. In 1990, he began performing in Europe as a solo artist.
Kelley Tomkinson is the mother to three beautiful girls (15, 8 & 3) wife to David, mom to Cosmo the Yorkie and Minnie the 20 lb cat! Even though she has been home schooling for only five years she has been a student of nature her entire life! Kelley is an avid gardener, novice cook ;) and an all around outdoorsy kinda mom who is frequently found dragging her children (and Cosmo) through the woods of Georgia since moving here over 3 years ago.
MONICA VELEZ
E-mail: mvelez(at)blc123.com
Mrs. Monica Velez our Spanish teacher is originally from Mexico City and has lived a very blessed life dedicated to God, her family and to teaching the Spanish language. She has been married for 24 years to Mr. Humberto Velez and is a proud mother of Humberto Jr. 23 and Marifer 20. She is eager to bring students into the Spanish language using a unique combination of education experience coupled with five years’ business background in language instruction management. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Infantile Psychology and is dedicated to enthusiastic and dynamic teaching as a means of creating and nurturing a lifelong love of knowledge in children.
She has over 14 years of experience teaching the Spanish language to children, teens and adults.
CAROL WEBB Email: c3studiosinc(at)bellsouth.net
Instructor Biography : Even as a child, I had to know how things worked. If someone told me no, I had to know why, if someone told me it could not be done, I had to try. Just like in my life, some things worked really well and some things did not. I try to consider everything an experiment. My mission is to find the way to make things work really well and then to share the knowledge. That has led me to where I am today, a mixed media artist and instructor. The distinctive characteristics of my work are a result of knowing the basic rules and then pushing outside of the rules to see what happens when...... My latest glass series is a result of allowing semi-molten glass to flow naturally in, over, and around an arrangement of selected objects. The glass is cooled at just the right moment to capture forever, in the finished piece, the motion of flow and the freedom of allowing the glass to do what it naturally wants to do
VANCE TRACY WILSON
E-mail: threeaxis(at)gmail.com A native of Bedford, Virginia, Vance Tracy Wilson moved to the Atlanta area 25 years ago. With over 20 years experience as an amateur astronomer and telescope maker, Vance is passionate about sharing his extensive knowledge in this area with students. Vance is a member of the Atlanta Astronomy club and served as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors from 1998-2000. Vance is currently pursuing a degree in Education at Georgia Perimeter College where his studies include teacher education, advanced mathematics, astronomy, physical science and earth science. Vance has a teenaged son and daughter who are about to begin their college careers as well.
NANCY YANASAK
Nancy graduated from Georgia Tech with two degrees in Computer Science. After almost 20 years of developing application software, she looked outside her cube and discovered that there was an exciting world out there, waiting to be discovered along with her daughter. More recently, she has served on the Board of her neighborhood HOA, was responsible for purchasing and assembling holiday stockings (and their contents therein) for 200 children of age range 0 - 18 for Angels Over Forsyth, and has reliably volunteered in numerous used book sales, co-operative education activities, and field trip outings. She is currently the VP of the Forsyth County Public Library Friends and Advocates organization.
