The Hamlin Public Library will be hosting author Kristen Bott Nordstrom for a live reading of her non-fiction picture book Mimic Makers on Tuesday, August 10, at 10:30 a.m. Mimic Makers profiles ten biomimicry inventors from around the world whose investigations about nature led to amazing inventions that help people and the planet. These innovators come from different areas of STEM expertise – biologist, chemical engineer, material science engineer, and microbiologist to name a few – but all work in the scientific field of biomimicry.
Kristen is a writer and full-time public school second grade teacher and founding member of a title one STEAM Academy in California, which serves a diverse group of students including: foster youth, bilingual learners, and children on the autism spectrum. She is passionate about connecting children to nature, and the wonders of STEAM through the Next Gen. Science Standards, hands-on science, and books.
Kristen’s roots are in the Hamlin and Brockport area. She graduated from Brockport High School. She visits her family every year in Hamlin and enjoys Lake Ontario, blueberry picking, bike rides to Hamlin Beach State Park, Abbott’s ice cream, Lift Bridge Book Shop, and the Strand Theater to name just a few. She comes from a big teaching family. Her grandmother, Marjorie VanCise; mother, Carol Bott; aunt, Ruth Rath; uncle and aunt, Bill and Liz Fitzgerald, all taught in the Brockport school system for most of their teaching careers.
“I had so many extraordinary teachers in my life from the Brockport area that encouraged me, and taught the positive and powerful impact a teacher can have on a child’s life. This is something I’ve taken with me wherever I’ve gone in the world. Mr. Dave Kelly was my AP Biology teacher at BHS. He was a great teacher and taught through a whole-system perspective to biology. I also want to thank Mr. John Izzo for being such an incredible teacher and amazing theater director,” Kristen said.
For information or to sign up for Kristen’s live reading, call the Hamlin Public Library at 964-2320.
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