• Working at 2 robotics camps with the local high school. It was their first year to compete and they went to nationals! We are trying to impart technology to the kids in our community.

• Rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon with a geologist guide. Moving to New Zealand for a year to work in the local schools as a visiting academic (Global Educators Program).

• Rest. Return to school for four weeks of professional development with the Alabama Math Science and Technology Initiative and then prepare for next year teaching physics, chemistry, and physical science.

• Read, kayak, finish unpacking, organize my storage closet, learn about electronic mentoring, take my kids to the beach, take my kids and dog hiking, and stay in bed past 6 a.m. every day!

• Relax play golf, do odd jobs around the house, find new things to try in my classroom next year, work on my curriculum, read recent research in our field, and go on vacation.

• Get in shape.

• Work as the academic dean at the Johns Hokpins Center for Talented Youth (the Windward site in west Los Angeles). After I get home in August, I will take a dozen girls up to the Olympic Park District to do field science for a week. I hope to get a couple of weeks to relax with my husband before I start back into getting ready for school!

• Work at the local state park helping campers.

• Participate in a Science and Literacy Academy presented by Lawrence Hall of Science and San Francisco Unified School District. Take my daughter to New York to go to college. Visit my mother in Florida. Wish I was going fishin'.

• Besides relaxing and rejuvenating by gardening and camping, I am also working. I get to work at home and with other teachers to strengthen middle school science instruction in my state. I will prepare a presenters manual for inquiry science training and work with a group of teachers to deepen their understanding of their instruction and student learning during a particular unit of study. It is a great combination...keeps me fresh and excited about going back in the Fall!

• Take a vacation with my wife, work on my Master's degree, work part time as a paramedic and teach at the paramedic class. The vacation includes trips to New York City, including a Yankees game.

• Work on my farm. Learn to do podcasting. Go to the American Museum of Natural History.

• Garden, paint my house, read some science books, and take an online physics course.

• Be the "Science Guy" for a day camp for child[ren] of poverty.

• Remodel three bedrooms in my house.

• Work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Mammalian Genomics as part of a NSF grant.

• Refresh. Recharge. Regroup. Relax.

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