Melissa Unger teaches STEAM at South Fayette Elementary School. She teaches K-2 students the early beginnings of computer programming and helps them to design, build, and bring their ideas to life as they conduct experiments, create inventions, and use technology to animate their projects. A life-long maker, Melissa intertwines art and science to challenge her students. Melissa also provides STEAM professional development to educators through the South Fayette STEAM Summer Institute, and is an online coach for Project Zero’s online course, Thinking and Learning in the Maker-Centered Classroom through Harvard University.

Melissa has presented on cross-curricular STEAM projects at the World Maker Faire, Pittsburgh MakerFaire, ISTE, and Scratch@MIT. Additionally, Melissa worked as a STEAM consultant for a 2017 Amazon Productions American Girl movie, and wrote Coding with Scratch and micro:bit publish by No Starch Press (2020 release).