Denise Wright, is a STEM/ Science Educator, in Horry County Schools. She was a piloting teacher in her state, for the Remote Telescope Distance Learning Program, with the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, South Carolina. In this program she was one of the first teachers to pilot a historic Alvan Clarke Refracting Telescope to be used in a classroom distance learning environment. She attended Astronomy Camp at the University of Arizona, the launches of Parker Solar Probe, and, Space X CRS18 at Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral Florida. Because of her passion of space and astronomy, in local community she founded an amateur astronomy group called Grand Strand Astronomers.