Melissa Pore, M.Ed. KM4CZN currently focuses her space passion as a high school engineering and science teacher in Arlington, Virginia and was named the Carole Perry Educator of the Year in 2020. Melissa has led 3 student satellite missions to orbit and is a licensed Amateur Radio operator and an Ambassador for the Education Committee for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). She serves on the US ARISS Ops team at Goddard Space Flight Center, known as the original Space Shuttle Retransmission Station, performing antennae operations for ARISS education downlinks between schools and astronauts LIVE on the ISS. Melissa also serves as a member of the User Advisory Committee (UAC) for the International Space Station National Lab. She was recently selected to be an advisor for the Georgetown University Space Initiative (GUSI). She also works with groups like NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN), NASA Internship Program, the United States Naval Academy, and the Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) through the International Space Station National Lab.