Carol Unterreiner

Carol Unterreiner teaches PLTW classes at Milwee Middle school in Seminole County. She is the electives department chair. She has over 30 years of educational experience, most of which has been in middle school.
Carol was a member of the Discovery Channel’s teacher team and traveled around the country teaching teachers how to use Discovery Channel Programming in their classroom. She was a member of the ITEEA 2023-2024 21st Century Leadership team.

Milwee Middle school has won several national awards including the MSA school of excellence and distinction, the ITEEA Program of Excellence, ITEEA STEM School of Excellence, and ISEA STEM Excellence awards.

She has presented at regional, national, and international conferences including FEEC, ITEEA, PLTW, ISEA, NSTA, FAST, Civil Air Patrol, UCF SECME Teacher training, and TSA. Carol is an advisor for Technology Student Association, Beta Club, SECME, Girl’s Engineering Breakfast Club, and Student Astronaut Challenge.

She is a member of the Society of Women Engineers, Magnet Schools of America, Technology Student Association, IEEE, AIAA, and International Technology and Engineering Educators Association. She currently serves as treasurer for the ITEEA Secondary STEM Council. Carol has won the Time Warner Crystal Apple Award 3 times, the Brighthouse Star Award twice, The ITEEA Stem teacher of excellence award twice, the ISEA Engineering teacher of the year, Seminole County Air Force teacher of the year, and Milwee teacher of the year.

Carol holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Arts in Communication Studies from University of Central Florida.