I am currently a biology teacher in Gabriela Mistral High School. Last year I was selected as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow by the Microbial Observatories Program of NSF, Arlington, VA. I served for one year within the BIO Division organizing panels, worskshops for minorities, etc that allowed me to understand the process of funding the best scientific proposals by NSF standards.
This fellowship also gave me the opportunity to introduce some Puertorrican scientists to serve as panelists at NSF.