CHIN’S CINEMA
Mrs. Chin’s top five favorite movies about space Meghan Williamson • Staff Reporter
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societies in Jacksonville. She worked with Jacksonville’s local Air Force Association as well as the Civil Air Patrol (CAP). In 2007, CAP began a school program intended to teach elementary through high school students about aerospace, and Chin was one of the first people in the U.S. to take part in the program.
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rior to working at Bishop Kenny, Marketing Coordinator Carla Chin worked with NASA on programs meant for teachers. During this time, she was teaching at Christ the King Catholic School and became interested in expanding her knowledge through programs with the air and space
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She later taught at San Jose Catholic School and spent three of her summers working at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Chin worked with other teachers and experts in the aeronautic field during the summer and weekend NASA programs. Chin incorporated what she learned with these programs
into STEM education at San Jose. In 2018, she began working at BK as marketing coordinator. She is also currently Vice President of the Air Force Association for Aerospace Education Falcon Chapter #399. Chin continues to express her love for science by assitisting in STEAM Day at BK every year.
