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Melissa Pore, KM4CZN, Named 2020 Educator of the Year

Melissa Pore, KM4CZN, has been selected as the Orlando Hamcation’s Carole Perry Educator of the Year for 2020. The award honors both professional and nonprofessional educators for outstanding contributions toward educating and advancing youth in amateur radio. Pore is a high school teacher in Virginia who is also heavily involved in the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program.

Pore teaches engineering and technology at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia, and is involved

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