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Robert Gotwals is a computational chemistry educator working with The Shodor Education Foundation. He is a former high school and college chemistry/computer science teacher whose teaching career has focused on "non-traditional" students -- hearing-impaired, visually-impaired, and the academically gifted. He has worked as a professional Braille transcriber, itinerant teacher of Braille, and free-lance sign language interpreter. He is also a retired 21-year veteran of the United States Navy. Mr. Gotwals received his B.S. in chemistry from East Carolina University and a double masters in education (science education and education of the hearing-impaired) from the University of Rochester and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His career has included teaching positions at the New York State School for the Deaf, Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, the Montgomery Blair Science and Mathematics Magnet program, and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center. He has been doing braille since the age of seven, and has been involved in the deaf community for over 15 years. His professional interests include the use of computer modeling to understand and teach quantum chemistry and the environmental sciences. His personal interests include music (choral singing, hammered dulcimer, and guitar), reading history and biographies, and woodworking. Mr. Gotwals lives with his wife and two young children in Durham, North Carolina. Bob