Sharita Ware is an engineering and technology education teacher at East Tipp Middle School in the Tippecanoe School Corporation in Lafayette, Indiana, where she is in her 10th year of teaching. Ware has a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering technology from the Purdue Polytechnic Institute and worked in industry for a number of years in engineering and marketing. Ware is an Indiana Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow in the STEM Goes Rural program at Purdue University, where she earned a Master of Science in Education in curriculum and instruction, specializing in engineering and technology teacher education; she also has a certification in Project Lead The Way’s Gateway to Technology program for middle school. She spends her days challenging her 7th and 8th-grade students with real-world, problem-based design challenges that will help them contribute to this global, technological world in which we live. Ware also hosts after-school activities, giving kids an outlet to be innovative and creative through such programs as FIRST Lego League, the Monday Maker Hour, and March Maker Magic.