Lisa Wininger

Lisa Wininger

Fellowship Placement: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Hometown: Portage, MI

Lisa Winninger is a MIRO Specialist for NASA and is based in West Michigan and has been a space enthusiast throughout her career. Lisa participated in the SOFIA Airborne Astronomy program in 2015, and speaks about the flying observatory and its research at professional gatherings. Lisa was selected as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow in 2017 and served a year as a Fellow with NASA. She is a graduate of WRATS rocketry camp at NASA Wallops Island, presented at the SEEC conference at Houston Space Center, and at multiple NSTA conferences. Lisa taught middle school STEM and science courses at Plainwell Middle School, Plainwell, Michigan. After teaching in grades two through five at the elementary level for ten years, Lisa led the creation of a middle school STEM program for 6th, 7th and 8th grade students, which established daily STEM instruction, robotics club and teams, aviation science, and engineering design. The program also included new elective courses in coding, STEM art, and tinkering. Lisa also taught Urban Sociology and American Government at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. She is a teacher facilitator for the Power of Data GIS project at Northern Arizona University.