Michelle Bogden is the Internship Recruitment Specialist with NASA Internships as part of NASA's Office of STEM Engagements portfolio to build a diverse future STEM workforce. Prior to joining NASA, she was a 5th - 8th-grade science teacher at Hawken School in Cleveland, Ohio passionate about getting her students involved in STEM programs like State Engineering Fairs, Science Olympiad, and Young Astronauts Day. Michelle volunteers as an advisory board member of a non-profit organization, The Cosmic Leap Foundation. Michelle supports teachers in programming aspects of the foundation like the Space Colony Competition.   Michelle has a B.S. in 7-12 Integrated Science and an M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction.