Staff Bios

Maryann Wolowiec, Project Manager, is managing the creation of the National Inventors Hall of Fame School... Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Learning with a vision to:
Provide the highest quality education experience for students that ensures creativity and inventive thinking through a focus on science, mathematics and technology.

Mrs. Wolowiec’s experience is drawn from work in private and public sectors. She began her career as a teacher and then took her interests to the pharmaceutical industry where she worked as a chemical information scientist and consultant for a pharmaceutical company. 

She returned to education because of her passion for children and public education. Mrs. Wolowiec pursued a graduate degree in curriculum and instruction becoming a math specialist. During her studies, she focused on how people learn mathematics and changed her teaching practices to a focus on student learning. She put that focus into practice teaching high school science and with her university undergraduate and graduate teaching. She served ten years as an administrator, including the superintendency, at a high achieving PreK-12 public school district. She also led a local P-16 initiative that focused on increasing the number of students pursuing college and/or post secondary training.

During her years as an educator and administrator, Mrs. Wolowiec led and participated in many curricular and leadership initiatives. An elementary math curriculum change process, led by Mrs. Wolowiec, was recognized by COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application, a National Science Foundation supported organization.  Recent leadership initiatives included work with Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management on Teacher Leadership Academies.

Mrs. Wolowiec earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, and a Masters Degree from Kent State University in Curriculum and Instruction, Math Specialist, along with further graduate studies in mathematics, science and leadership.

Mrs. Wolowiec believes that we have the responsibility to assure all students aspire, have access and attain the education that prepares them with the knowledge and experiences needed to make choices for their futures.