Douglas Hodum is a biology and environmental science teacher at Mt. Blue Campus in Farmington, Maine. He has been teaching for 16 years and served as the science department head from 2008 to 2016. In 2010, he was named to the third cohort of the Maine Governor’s Academy for Teacher Leadership in Mathematics and Science, and in 2013, he was named a Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow. Hodum has also served as the vice president and president of the Maine Science Teachers Association. In 2016, Hodum was named as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, where he served in a personal legislative office and a committee office on Capitol Hill. He is currently the District II Director for the National Science Teachers Association.

Tammie Schrader is the regional computer science and science coordinator for the Northeast Washington Education Service District 101, serving 59 school districts. Prior to this, Schrader taught science and career and technical education classes to middle school students in Cheney, Washington, for 15 years. She also teaches science methods classes at Whitworth University and Gonzaga University. Schrader contributed on a National Science Foundation grant with Filament Games working on implementing educational video games in science classes and spoke at the White House Game Jam in 2014. Schrader is a National Board certified teacher and served as a U.S. Department of Education Fellow in 2008–2009.