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Hi!  Welcome to my first blog!

My name is Marty Rothwell.  I am a teacher at Chantilly High School and George Mason university.  I enjoy engineering and technology (I should, since that's what I teach at both places!).  I also enjoy astronomy and tinkering.  I recently went to a star party in West Virginia.  Here's a picture of where we were.

This is the darkest place on the Eastern side of the Mississippi, so it's a great place for star gazing at night.

My favorite place to be is in Westfield NY.  That's where I was born and where my family gets together each summer on my parent's farm.  Here's a few pictures.

Here's a picture of me while I was there.  I was in the middle of removing a large stump from the ground.

  Here's a picture of me and my wife dressed up at a formal dinner for a non-profit educational organization called FOGE (Federation of Galaxy Explorers).  FOGE ties together my three interests of engineering, education and astronomy.

My daughter Hannah is a freshman at Univ of Mary Washington.

My son Ben likes to play baseball.

As I mentioned earlier, I teach engineering at Chantilly Academy.  We are a semi-magnet school in Fairfax County.  Students from other schools come to the Academy to take specialized courses, such as engineering, then go back to their base school for regular classes.  I've been teaching engineeering for 15 years now.

I'm also an adjunct professor at George Mason University.  I teach Intro to System Eng (SYST101) and Intro to Engineering (ENGR107).  I've been teaching their for about 8 years now.