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INPERSON
PETERS TOWNSHIP MIDDLE SCHOOL’S
MARY COLLINS WINS
MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATOR AWARD
BY NICOLE TAFE
P
eters Township has no shortage
of prized teachers with many
accolades to their names. This
year, Peters Township Middle
School teacher Mary Collins added to
that list in winning the Middle Level
Educator Award, sponsored by Allegheny
Health Network and distributed by the
Carnegie Science Center for inspiring
students and staff to appreciate and apply
STEM concepts.
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Collins, 26, is native to the South Hills,
having grown up in Upper St. Clair. In
2014, she graduated with a degree in
Mathematics, certification in Secondary
Mathematics Education, and a minor
in Business from Grove City College.
In the spring of 2017, she completed
the graduate program at Johns Hopkins
University, where she earned an M.S. in
Technology for Educators.
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She continued on to teach high school
math at York Suburban High School for
her first two years post-college, and then
moved back to Pittsburgh to work for
Peters Township. She will be starting her
third year at Peters Township Middle
School this fall.
At Peters, Collins teaches 7th grade
math and supervises the school’s
STEM space. “We call it the Hub of
Imagination,” she says. The room was