Naomi Volain is a Life Science teacher, and her teaching focuses on natural resources, investigation, inquiry, curiosity and excitement as the means to student learning and doing Science. She teaches Botany, Advanced Placement Environmental Science and its Lab, Ecology, Biology, and Pre-Advanced Placement Biology Lab classes. Field work is an important part of student work in all of her classes. Naomi is a NASA Network of Educator Astronaut Teacher and winner of a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Massachusetts Science, 2011. She also received an Honorable Mention for the 2014 Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators!