Kaci Heins

I love Mrs. Heins. She is the best teacher is the world and she is very respected. Even if she does not win she will always be our great amercian teacher. She loves her job and I agree with Lucy she does not use her text book and she really wants to help us kids be sucessfulin science. I is the awesomist teacher she is very passionate about science. You rock. Brianna Biddle :)

I hope you win Mrs. Heins because you are the best teacher ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep voting for mrs Heins I know I am because 10000 dollars is great for the classroom

Mrs. Heins is the best teacher EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She makes me want to come to class and learn! -Holly C.

I am so excited that you made it to the 3rd round! GOOD LUCK!!! VOTE FOR MRS. HEINS!!!!! Regan M. Eagar

Good luck, Mrs. Heins!

If everyone could spend a day as sixth graders in your classroom, I know that everyone would vote for you;)

Mrs. Heins has had so much experience with real life science which makes it even more amazing for us when she can let her experiences interact with our daily lives. Everyone vote for Mrs. Heins!!!

Every teacher may deserve this, but Mrs. Heins is the one who could really make a difference with it!

Vote for Mrs. Heins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -MEGAN

Go mrs. Heins!!!!! You really deserve to win and we all hope you do!!!! -Megan Swinney

Mrs. Heins, the lego robotics unit was the coolest unit all year! It was so fun to be able to do hands-on activities and to experience what it was like for people with these actual jobs. You are the best science teacher I have ever had and I think it would be really amazing to win the 10,000 dollars so we could do more stuff like this and you really deserve to win! Thank you so much for such a great year in science class!

Mrs. Heins is a young teacher with energy. She always has faith in her students that they can, and will, do the right things. Truely, if anyone is going to do something great with 10,000 dolars, Mrs. Heins is that person.

That was the coolest lego competition! Thanks for all the great tips and all the FUN!!!

I <3 Mrs. Heins! She really deserves the 10,000 dollars, seriously. She enjoys teaching science, and she does it without a textbook, and she cares about science and her students. -Rachel Cortese :)

You got this Mrs. Heins :) -Rachel Cortese

Funniest LEGO contest ever that mrs Heins did with us ... Thanks mrs Heins

Great Job Kaci -- I knew you would be a great teacher!!!

go ms heins! i hope u win!

Mrs.Heins you rock and you really do make a difference! Go MRS.HEINS!

Mrs. Heins has the best intentions for the $10,000 and she deserves your vote and to win this contest. She's the best teacher ever and she's a kind, caring, patient teacher who is respected and amazing. She's a respectable, full-of-knowledge teacher and she deserves to win this contest as much as anybody deserves to. She teaches with hands-on experiments with NASA, video chats with astronauts on the ISS, and many amazing guest speakers who give us many different voices on the thousands of opportunities to become the scientists and engineers of the future. She also encourages out of school science programs like Lego Robotics and Space Spartans. She's a NASA-holic, so she lets us work and compare it with NASA. (AWESOME!!!!) Lucy D.

Mrs. Heins is THE BEST teacher in the whole entire WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regan M Eagar

Mrs. Heins is the best teacher a student could have! -From your favorite student(or so I hope)

Mrs. Heins will win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Rachel Cortese

I wish Mrs. Heins was my teacher forever! She is so fun, awesome, and everything better than a normal science teacher. VOTE FOR HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Rachel Cortese

VOTE FOR MRS. HEINS!!!!!! -ABBY

VOTE FOR MRS. HEINS!!!!!! -ABBY

Mrs. Heins is an extremely awesome teacher who knows how to work with kids and is willing to do what she needs to do to help us in any way. Most of all, she taught me to LOVE SCIENCE! -Jonah Anthony, period 3 science

Mrs. Heins is an extremely awesome teacher who knows how to work with kids and is willing to do what she needs to do to help us in any way. Most of all, she taught me to LOVE SCIENCE!

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Mrs. Heins is great! She got me interested in robotics, as well as everything that is science. I participate in her Science Club every week. You'll always have my vote Mrs. Heins! - Johnathan

Mrs Heins lets us also try Lego Robotics in her class she doesn

I know you will win

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Kaci doesn't just make a difference in her own classroom. She also inspires educators (like me) to try new challenges, find out about new experiences, and dare mighty things. Her reach extends far beyond the students in her own classroom to those across the country and around the world.

So close u can do it :) :) :)-Ethan

Kaci Heins is a great teacher, she teaches as if the students were in an Actual science lab, with all of the hands on activities she does with us. Science is my favorite class. Z. Tweed

Kaci is passionate about what she does. She is a role model to other teachers to be inspiring and fun while still meeting the demands of the curriculum. Kaci deserves to win this! Good luck my friend.

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Incredible dedication, truly passionate about subject! Best ever!

Mrs Heinz is the best, she's always doing great hands on activitys

You understand you didn't spell her name right, right?

The things we do in science are so cool!!! We just started making robots and it is so much fun! We all love you Mrs. Heins. VOTE MRS. HEINS!!!!!!!!

You got this Mrs. Heins!!! :) -Lauren F.

I hope she wins !! Good luck Mrs.heins -Ethan

Mrs Heins I the best set is so funny wht would we do without her. -Ethan

Mrs. Heins is the absolute BEST teacher ever! Please vote for her because she is SO creative. She makes me want to come to class and learn! I love mrs. Heins and wish the best for her:)

Hi ms. Heins! Good luck!

Mrs. Heins is my absolute favorite teacher. she has helped me throughout the school year and has made a huge difference in my life. Thank you for always being there for me Mrs Heins. -Kyle O

Mrs. Heins is my favorite teacher and the most fun one. Lucy D.

You're the best teacher ever and have the funnest experiments. I enjoy your smile around the classroom and I hope you win:)

I just wanted to thank everyone for their kind words. I wish every teacher could feel this good about what they do and get this support. No matter what happens with this contest I feel like a winner and I am blessed to be a part of your lives.

I love that Mrs.Heins is a hands on teacher, please vote for her because she really deserves to win!!! Also listen to her and two students on the radio on Friday the 8th at 7:15!!!

Its actully at 7:20!!!

Kaci Heins is an inspiring teacher who encourages students to be life long learners. She exemplifies project based learning via her science classes and integrates other subject areas and disciplines into all of her lessons. She is innovative and exuberant teacher whose skills go beyond the classroom to the after school learning clubs that she facilitates as well.

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Mrs. Heins is the kind of teacher that I wish I had when I was in middle school. She brings science to life for her students. Students are shown how science is applied in real life, not just given information from a text book. She encourages everyone to excel in all areas, not just science. Mrs. Heins also volunteers her time with students interested in Lego Robotics. She coached a first year team of students who were selected to attend the Arizona First Lego League State Competition. Mrs. Heins has brought those same robots into the classroom in order to give every student the opportunity to learn basic programming and learn that science can be applied to many different areas of life. She also volunteers her time to work with students in the school's Science Club. Mrs. Heins is consistently challenging her students to strive for more. Due to her enthusiasm for all things science, students have been able to participate in the Changes in Altitudes Balloon Satelite Program. The data obtained from the balloon launch was then brought back into the class for the students to use during their weather unit. All of these activities take time, which Mrs. Heins freely gives. She volunteers her time after school every Tuesday and Thursday, as well as those Saturdays that are needed to make final preparations for events such as Lego Robotics or High Altitude Balloon launches. Her door is always open, both for students and parents. Thank you Mrs. Heins for taking the time to work with not only my son, but all the students at NPA. You are appreciated more than you know.

We have had 2 kids who have had Mrs. Heins. She gets them thinking about overall approaches to problems in ways that open the world of science in a fun way for kids. Her enthusiastic style is contagious. She has sought out many opportunities to enhance her classes-from studying on Alaska science boats to her work with NASA. We all benefit from her efforts and I thoroughly applaud her dedication to her students!

Science is my favorite class! I love to do challenges, activities and learn how to build things that could change the world!! Mrs. Heins is so creative on how she teaches her lessons and they work! I have learned a lot more about science. Especially in the are of Lego Robotics, and the human body. Thank you for being a wonderful teacher!!!

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I have been very favorably impressed by Kaci

Mrs Heins works hard to inspire big ideas in her students. She sees her students as agents that can make a difference and bring solutions. This view of middle schoolers is so refreshing. I love that she teaches science without a text book. It is the way science should be taught. It is very easy to see that she loves teaching. Everything she teaches has real world application and is project based. Being a mom of one of her students she even inspires me and I have learned a lot. So thankful my son is getting the opportunity to be in her class. He has grown so much. Thank you Mrs Heins for your extraordinary efforts

Well stated and ditto here Joy. J-Man and Bri love her class!

I have had the pleasure of subbing for Kaci Heins and I was so impressed at the quality of her lesson plans and how excited the kids were to learn about Science! While I was typing a one page report on the 3-toed sloth when I was in 6th grade, Mrs. Heins 6th grade students were learning about and putting together a presentation to educate others about a water crisis in a third world country. She deserves any teaching award she applies for! Her association with NASA and her enthusiasm as a result, shows in her teaching and her students! Kaci Heins is one of a kind!

Thank you Julia!! : )

Mrs. Heins is a life changing teacher. She makes science interesting!!!