The award was established by the Biotechnology Institute to honor high-school educators who are bringing biotechnology to their classrooms and encouraging fellow science teachers to do the same.
VOA: standard.2009.11.25
Words cannot explain the way I feel knowing that I was involved with something that will help bring thousands of my fellowteachers back to work.
In 2000, Best started DonorsChoose.org from his New York classroom, getting his fellowteachers to sign up and request what they wanted most for their students.