Our guest relies exclusively on project-based learning to teach physics and high-level math concepts. The passion he fosters in students, the number girls he attracts to the program and the test scores they receive are all exceptional.

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Ben Owens spent 20 years as an engineer in industry before leaving the corporate world to teach math and physics at Tri-County Early College High School in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. He is a 2014 Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow and is passionate about changing the status quo in education by better connecting the classroom to what happens in today’s global, knowledge based economy.