Tom Spencer is a teacher with Chesapeake Public Schools where he teaches Engineering and Physics for Technology at the Center for Science and Technology.


Tom spent several weeks in Antarctica under a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation that involves teachers with scientific research. He worked with the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) project. AMANDA is a special telescope that looks at things from galaxies that cannot be seen with the human eye.

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