Mickie Flores is an adventurer, always looking for new terrain and new experiences. Originally from Long Island, she ventured off to college in upstate New York, obtained a BS in Animal Science from Cornell University and an MS in Education from Elmira College, and has spent the majority of her days in various parts of New York as an educator. Currently, she teaches high school chemistry and a science methods course for the State University of New York at Potsdam.
A licensed Adirondack guide, she also was a pioneer on the Internet and founded CyberTrail Outfitters, a website company which has led the way in the North Country. Two websites created with her students placed in the international CyberFair and a third website won in a National Geographic competition.
Mickie spent 2003-2004 hiking in the Federal wilderness as the recipient of an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship. Her role there was managing the education portfolio of Senator Durbin (D-Illinois).
In 1994, Mickie won an International Society of Technology in Education award with "International Conservation Continuum", an offshoot of Marnie's MISTNET project in which students communicated electronically, reporting the progress of birds migrating up the North American flyways. In 1996, she was the recipient of a New York State Public Television Grant for Innovative Teaching with Telecommunications. She has also published "The Alchemy of Art: Transforming student art into student knowledge in the chemistry classoom" in The Science Teacher, a magazine of the National Science Teachers Association.