About Jeff Wheatcraft

Jeff Wheatcraft is the creator, coordinator, and teacher of the STEM program at Alamo Heights Junior School in San Antonio, TX. In his 13th year of teaching, he is continuing to push the boundaries of hands-on, real-world problem solving. Students in his class are charged with finding solutions to tough problems and then building the solution and testing it for viability. He is the 2019 Texas Teacher of the Year and has been awarded the Trinity Prize of Teaching Excellence and been nominated twice for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching.