Mrs. Menicucci has been dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo School since 1986. When computers first began to appear in elementary schools, Mrs. Menicucci worked for APS and UNM teaching teachers how to make the best use of this new technology in their classrooms. Upon enrolling her children into this school, she brought her knowledge and contacts with her to support the technology program at St. Charles. As the technology changed, she worked with local engineering firms and later with Sandia National Labs to ensure the equipment at the school was upgraded every few years. She used her APS contacts to organize volunteers to wire the entire school and install a new server. She also serves as one of our grant writers for projects that support all curriculum areas. The network infrastructure always needs to be maintained, and the equipment and software upgraded, but an additional important part of technology in education is the curriculum for the students. Every year one can find Mrs. Menicucci attending the international conference for the International Society for Computers in Education gathering new knowledge and sorting through the latest trends in computer education. She works with the administration and teachers to determine which types of activities and skills best suit our students. The technology curriculum at St. Charles provides opportunities for students to build age-appropriate skills using different tools. These skills include learning to type correctly using both hands and developing their research skills using appropriate online websites and resources to gather information for reports. Throughout the grades, curriculum goals are focused on making sure students are prepared for the next grade level and, ultimately, for high school. For fundamental productivity skills, upper elementary and middle school students learn to use the Microsoft Office and Google Suite tools to type reports, create presentations, design newspapers and websites, and graph and analyze data on spreadsheets. Students develop their creativity and reasoning skills through coding activities using Scratch and other object-oriented programming languages. The coding is used to program robots and to design small items to be printed using our 3-D printers. This year’s 7 th grade students are participating in the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) STEM Robotics program building small robots and programming them to run mazes and work with sensors,. The lessons culminate in an EXPO and competition to be held in March 2020. Our new Makerspace was supported by a grant from the Catholic Foundation and provides an area and resources for students in grades 3-8 to design projects, engineer structures, explore circuits, and develop their creative talents.