The Educating Apple: Wozniak Supports Innovative Global Technology Projects

December 1, 2021 by Katianne Williams

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Janet Wozniak is enamored with the natural world, be it the small animals in her California backyard or the birds she tagged and studied in Mexico when she traveled there from Baldwin City, Kansas, while an undergraduate at Baker University. The daughter of a teacher and a school superintendent, she possesses a passion for the biological sciences and a love of learning in general. She studied both math and biology and received a master’s degree in education at the University of Kansas before becoming a teacher, a career she picked for herself in second grade, ready to follow in her parents’ footsteps.

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