Eugene Lemon

“Due to my life experiences I find satisfaction in working with students who have significant challenges in improving attendance, consistency in enrollment and achieving core subject proficiency. I realized the students the Teach with Africa program serves are at-risk young people just like the students I’ve been serving during my teaching career.  This is the student population I enjoy working with because I get a sense of satisfaction when I see them succeed and become productive members of society.”

Eugene holds a B.A. in Sociology from Pacific Lutheran University and a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Puget in Washington State.  He possesses over 30 years of experience in the computer technology field, both as a teacher and as a business consultant assisting companies with the implementation of technology and accounting software packages for their operations.  As a teacher, he has worked in schools primarily serving at-risk youth.  In his current employment as teacher, specializing in the computer sciences, at a continuation high school in Oakland, California, he works with students who would otherwise have a difficult time succeeding in a traditional high school setting.  Through his classes, Eugene strives to make learning an overall positive experience for his students while helping them to develop core academic skills and meet California’s Career Technology Education standards in the Information Technology Sector.  Eugene is a member of the Computer Science Teacher Association, the Computer Science Teacher Leadership Cohort, The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education and an Alice version 3.0 Beta Tester.

You can contribute directly to Eugene’s work with Teach With Africa!