Teresa Fleming
Chairman
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Director Fleming and her husband have 6 children and 7 grandchildren. Their youngest was part of Pi STEM’s first graduating class in 2022. She is an Army veteran and has an undergraduate degree in Microelectronical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. She also has an MBA from the University of Phoenix that she utilizes in her position in cost accounting for the Veterans Administration. Although she has had no formal training in education, she believes education naturally becomes part of your life the minute you become a parent.

Director Fleming is a member of the founding board of Project Impact STEM Academy. One of the motivating factors that led her to become a founding member of Pi STEM was that as a parent, she felt that her children seemed oddly under-prepared for “adult-life” when they reached 18. Over the last few years, she has realized that part of the issue was her own mistaken parenting methods. She sheltered her children too much from failure. These realizations are what lead her to working with PiSTEM. As a founding member of PiSTEM she has continued to advocate for all families to have a choice in the education of their children. While she has only one child that will benefit directly from my learning and growth as a parent, she looks forward to her grandchildren being able to attend Pi STEM and she hopes her work can impact the lives of many others!

Sharina Jensen
Board Member
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Director Jensen is a professional speaker who wears a lot of hats in the realm of helping professions. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Boise State University. She is passionate about early intervention education (special education); informed choice/consent; and the transition of families with respect to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Director Jensen and her husband are Project Impact STEM Academy's founding members. She chose to be a founder because she sought greater choice for Kuna families in K-12 education. Her belief is that people are unique and therefore need access to diverse learning opportunities. Director Jensen is the mother of 3 amazing children, a wife (married to a Kuna Native), and a proud member of the Board of Directors.

Ben Peterson
Secretary
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Director Peterson was born and raised in Southeast Idaho, where he became fascinated with his family’s first computer and has been tinkering with technology since. In high school, he gained a love of project-based education from his electronics teacher. The teacher sent students into the school to support technology and solve problems. Another experience that impacted Director Peterson in high school was building an electronic device to teach other physics students the principles of falling objects.

He continued to pursue his passion for technology and problem-solving into college where he competed in the IGVC competition and earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University He now resides in Kuna with his wife and 3 children. Director Peterson works at Boise State University as an IT Systems Engineer and is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. As a founding Board Member of Project Impact STEM Academy, he continues to support project-based education through his service and dedication.

Joshua S. Hopping
Vice Chair
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Director Hopping joined the PiSTEM family when it first opened in the fall of 2018. In the years since he and his wife have continued to be impressed with the teachers and administrators. As a first-generation college student who struggled to pass classes in elementary and middle school, he understands firsthand how education can transform the story of one’s life.

Director Hopping has worked for two tech startups within the online brand protection industry with over seventeen years of experience helping multinational companies protect their intellectual property online. He is an Associate Member of the World Association of Detectives and a Professional Certified Investigator (PCI®) by ASIS International specializing in open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis aimed at providing clients with actionable intelligence used to dismantle and disrupt counterfeit or otherwise abusive networks. Between 2018-2021 I served on the Board of Directors of the Idaho chapter of InfraGard, a partnership between the FBI and members of the critical infrastructure private sector. He also served on the 2022-2023 International Trademark Association’s (INTA) Indigenous Rights Committee. He holds an Associate of Science in Design Technology Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from LeTourneau University (Longview, TX, USA) along with a Master of Arts in Theology and Culture from St. Stephen University (St. Stephen, NB, CA). Director Hopping is a published author and a Cherokee Nation tribal member who gratefully acknowledges that we live in the traditional lands of the Shoshone and Bannock tribes, people who are still with us today.

Project Impact STEM Academy’s mission of providing an adaptive and personalized learning environment that will foster confidence while practicing failure is something that he wishes would have been available during his younger years. Hence, it is his desire to help build and expand the school with the hope that thousands of lives will be changed through a life-long pursuit of knowledge and experimentation.

Clay Zobell
Treasurer
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Born and raised in a small town in Montana, Clay enjoys living in the small community of Kuna. He is happily married to a wonderful wife and they have 3 amazing children that keep them busy.

Director Zobell attended Brigham Young University where he earned a Bachelors in Healthcare Administration. He has worked in healthcare his whole career after college. He currently works for St. Luke’s. He feels it is important to be involved and he joined the Pi STEM Board to be active in the school and community. He is a strong believer in parent’s rights and school choice. He likes helping others around him and really enjoys that he can give something back to the school that his children attend.

Krissy Lamont
Board Member
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Director Lamont was born and raised in a small town in Idaho. She has worked within public education and with school board members in various capacities over the last 15 years in Idaho, Oregon, Alaska, and Texas. She currently owns and runs 3B: Building Better Boards, a company that provides training and support services to boards of directors and trustees across the state of Idaho. She is employed by the Nampa School District Board of Trustees as their board clerk and previously worked for the Idaho School Board Association as a trainer and director of leadership development and member services.

She has two amazing children who play a big influence on who she is and who she hopes to be in the future. She wants them and others to see that no matter where you come from or what your past experiences have given you, a success story can be realized. Director LaMont’s personal goal is to see children receive the best opportunities possible in life. Director LaMont works and volunteers to make sure that children have the best opportunity to enjoy life and find success, whatever that means to them.