Lynne F. Zielinski has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Colorado and a master's degree in physics from Northeastern Illinois University. She has been teaching physics, astronomy and space science for 32+ years. She has been engaging students in NASA programs since 1987, overseeing more than 80 nationally placed and NASA Center winners. Currently, Lynne is and has served as the Vice President of Education for the National Space Society since 2010. She has overseen the student programing for the annual International Space Development Conference since 2008, where in 2024 more than 580 students attended globally. Lynne's SpacEdge Education Team has presented space and astronomy lessons world-wide and hosts the SpacEdge Academy (https://spacedge.nss.org), a space educational lesson/course repository free to educators hosting more than 150 lessons created by teachers for teachers. Her work at the National Space Society (NSS) engaged more than 50,000 students and educators through the O'Neill Space Settlement Contest, Live in a Healthy Space Design Competition, Space Elevator Academic Challenge, and the Roadmap to Space Art Contest. Most presentations and workshops have to do with space exploration, development, settlement and planetary defense from asteroids and comets, along with their relationship to NASA spacecraft, exploration and missions. Before her retirement, her club, the Glenbrook Aerospace Development Get-away Experiment Team (GADGET), a student organization established by Zielinski, has flown nine active and more than 200 passive experiments on six Space Shuttle missions, nine sub-orbital NASA rockets, four NASA drop-tower experiments, three NASA C-9 & Zero-G aircraft reduced experiments a NASA high-altitude balloon and a dirigible. GADGET students have participated in STEM & STEAM collaborations world-wide, creating the first mechanically produced art piece in space and combining music, art, and science engagement to non-science students. GADGET has also collaborated on NASA experiments with students in Israel, Portugal and Morocco. Lynne and her GADGET students have conducted educational outreach for K-12 students in three states, and at state and national educator workshops. Her creative and passionate commitment to science education is demonstrated through a wide range of efforts including authorship of student experiment results in NASA journals, contributions to NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP) resource guides, chapter sets in physical science textbooks, and designing educational websites and activities for national astronomy programs. Her research includes work at NASA Johnson Space Center in the Space Station Training Division (1990-91) and at the University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory (2000-01) where she helped launch a NASA rocket into the aurora and created astronomy and space science education curricula. Some of Lynne's awards include the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award (2014), SOFIA Aerospace Ambassador (2014), Christopher Penkratz Space Activist of the Year (2013), NASA NSIP Hall of Fame Award (2004), AT&T Broadband Awesome Teacher Award (2002), Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching (2000), Christa McAuliffe Memorial Award (1999), Tandy Technology Scholar in Science Teaching (1998), John F. Kennedy Award for Courage (1994), National Space Educator Award (1988), and state semifinalist for NASA's Teacher in Space Program (1985).