She is a winner of the 2012 Institute of Physics Teachers of Physics Award and was described as an ‘exceptionally gifted teacher with boundless enthusiasm for physics who has had a profound effect on her students’. Melissa has previously run a project for students from Y10-Y12: “Science and Sustainability”: team work focussed on what the issues of the future might be, with more detailed investigation of one of these, and the role of STEM subjects in finding solutions. The final student presentations surpassed all expectations, so a second project is launching now.