Kenneth J. Harasty
Teacher/TV Lab Director
Ken Harasty is currently in his 29th
year of teaching science at Brownsville Area High School in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
Ken teaches Earth & Space Science, Astronomy, Marine Technology and General Science 9, and is
also the director of the school's television studio and advisor for the "Falconer", the high
school newspaper. He also has taught in the Department of Educational Studies at California
University of Pennsylvania
Ken served for six years as the Pittsburgh area conference coordinator for the Johns Hopkins
University Center for Talented Youth. Since 1998 he has received fellowships to participate
in the U.S. Space Camp for Teachers with the University of Alabama at Huntsville and the REVEL
Oceanography Project of the University of Washington, where he participated in a research dive
aboard the world famous DSV AlVIN submersible of Titanic fame. In 2000, he was selected for a
Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellowship to study tropical ecology and global climate change in the
forests of Costa Rica. During the summer of 2001, he studied the education system and culture of
Japan as a recipient of Fulbright Memorial Fund fellowship. Ken varied background in science
has allowed him to serve as a curriculum writer for the teachers' guides that are an integral
part of every CNN Newsroom program.
Ken uses CNN Student News in his classes on Mondays for the Environmental Desk segment and on
Thursdays for the Science Desk. The works of his students have been selected by CNN Student
Bureau to appear on regular CNN programming and on cnnfyi.com education web site. Other programming
from Turner Learning is incorporated into the curriculum when suitable.
In addition to his education activities, Ken is a member of the National Band of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars and enjoys hiking, fishing and traveling.
Ken received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from California University of Pennsylvania.
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Faculty Members
- Betty Ballard - bio
- Paul Balog - bio
- Jeffrey A. Beatty - bio
- Beverly Biber - bio
- Anne Davis - bio
- Barbara Deppner - bio
- Barbara Brown Dierksen - bio
- Sonya Fidler - bio
- Lou Ann Getz - bio
- Kenneth J. Harasty - bio
- Jacqueline Henry - bio
- Joan Horvath - bio
- Lisa E. Kennedy - bio
- Jill Kohler - bio
- Ronda Lee - bio
- Bill McCormick - bio
- Nikki Golar Mouton - bio
- Lorraine B. Palkert - bio
- Carol Pineiro - bio
- Edward Sickles, III - bio
- Andrea Smith-Pearson - bio
- Lois J. Ellis Wolfe - bio
- Colleen P. Wozniak - bio
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