Margaret Bohlin is a teacher liaison for the Space Foundation, a volunteer with NASA’s Solar System Ambassador Program, a Space Station Ambassador, an Aerospace Connections in Education (ACE) teacher, and the president of the Roswell Astronomy Club. In April 2023 she was selected as one of Disney’s 100 Inspiring Teachers in the nation and was honored at Disneyland. She has directed Camp Invention for fifteen years and was a participant at Space Academy for Educators in Huntsville, Alabama, and Liftoff Summer Institute in Houston, Texas. She is also a board member of the Leadership Roswell Alumni Association and the Walker Aviation Museum. She has both attended and presented at space conferences and workshops, taught at space camps, and constantly shares her love of space.
Mrs. Bohlin earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education, with a teaching emphasis in Spanish and a gifted endorsement from New Mexico State University. She taught for twenty-eight years in both elementary and middle schools, about half of which was in gifted education. Currently she teaches science to students from first through eighth grade at a local private school and tutors high school and college students at the New Mexico Military Institute. She is a wife of thirty-four years and a mother of two grown young men.