On October 27th & 28th students and staff at Luis Munoz Marin, John Marshall School of Engineering, Miles Park and Wade Park Schools joined Michael DiSpezio for an intimate, informative and motivational experience that centered around staying in school as the best strategy to attain their dreams. Michael shared his experience as the first in his family to finish college and explore the doors it opened. Using brain research and optical illusions, he exploited the subjects' natural excitement by igniting and engaging students' interested in college. And as a special treat, all attendees received 3D viewers as they learned the simple techniques to capture three dimensional photos using an ordinary cell phone camera!

Michael is a renaissance educator, speaker, and author. A former marine biologist, Michael completed his graduate studies at the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole and worked as a research assistant to a Nobel Prize winner. His knowledge of natural history has resulted in numerous publications and speaking engagements throughout the world on an assortment of scientific topics that range from optical illusions to learning and the brain. Leaving the laboratory, he celebrated his passion in education as a K-12 classroom teacher for nearly ten years. Towards the end of that tenure, he began writing textbooks and was awarded his first authorship on a high school chemistry series. Extensive travel has taken him from the Emmys with an award nominated show on HIV to the Bahamas where he developed the Discovery Channel Camp at Atlantis. To date, he is the author of over 30 trade books and has co-authorship on over 3 dozen science textbooks.