Olivia Kuper is a passionate science educator at North Greene High School in Greeneville, Tennessee, where she teaches Honors and on-level Chemistry. She has taught public school for 16 years, including AP Chemistry, Honors and on-level Chemistry, 8th grade science, 4th grade, 1st grade, and Technology K-4. Last year, she taught AP Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, and Chemistry at Braswell High School in Aubrey, Texas and sponsored the Robotics Club. Previously, she taught 8th grade science Lake Dallas Middle School (LDMS) for nine years, where she was the science department head. She piloted the LDMS robotics program and had two competitive teams, including an all-girl team in 2019. she led a group of middle school students to do independent science research after school and began the Lake Dallas Pulsar Hunters, a group of students working with Green Bank Observatory Pulsar Search Collaboratory. In 2015, she was selected as Lake Dallas Independent School District’s Secondary Teacher of the Year. In 2019, she received the Texas Medical Association’s Ernest and Sarah Butler Award for Excellence in Science Teaching. During my tenure at LDMS, she was chosen to participate in the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP), and together with her students, conducted authentic astronomy research with three other teachers across the country and their students, under the guidance of a mentor astrophysicist from Caltech. Her group worked together for a year on the project, then traveled to Washington D.C. to present their research at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting. Last year, she was selected to participate in an astronomy research project at McDonald Observatory with three other teachers and a mentor astrophysicist from the University of Texas, looking for low-metallicity stars in the galactic halo. They traveled to The University of Texas McDonald Observatory, planned their own observations, and operated the 76-year old Otto Struve Telescope and collected our own data. They presented a poster at the American Astronomical Society meeting in January about our experience, “Authentic Astronomical Research as Science Teacher Professional Development.” She has two daughters and  lives in east Tennessee where she likes to gaze at the stars in her spare time.