Stephanie Mendoza is a elementary/middle school STEAM teacher in Brownsville, Texas. She has a passion to teach students about science, technology, engineering, arts, and math and how they are integrated into their daily lives. She loves looking up at the night sky and seeing all the stars and planets and being able to recognize constellations. Mendoza hopes to inspire students to go into engineering and science fields and to inspire them to pursue an education in space advancement.