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Connie Wells has a Master of Science Degree in Physics from The University of Kansas and is a Physics and Advanced Placement Physics teacher, as well as Science Olympiad Team Coach, at Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri. During the past eighteen years as an A.P. Physics teacher, she has been active in test scoring and development for The College Board, serving on the AP Physics Test Development Committee from 1997-2001. Since 1995, she has served in various roles as Reader, Table Leader and Question Leader for the A.P. Physics Reading. As a workshop leader and College Board institute consultant, she has presented teacher workshops and institutes throughout the country and abroad—including summer institutes in California, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, West Virginia, Hawaii, and Saipan. In November 2003, Connie received the 2003-04 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement Teaching sponsored by The College Board and The Siemens Foundation. She is the author of AP Physics B, a companion review guide for Walker's Physics, 3rd edition, published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006. She previously authored Kaplan’s AP Physics B: A Study Guide, published by Simon and Schuster in 2002 and 2003 and has most recently contributed an article on “Electric Potential and Potential Energy” for the College Board focus booklet on “Electrostatics”. Connie was appointed by The College Board in May, 2006 to the AP Physics Redesign Commission, which has been working to develop the Physics B curriculum for advanced high school and introductory college physics. This past summer, she presented College Board AP Physics workshops at the AP Annual Conference in Las Vegas and at Colegio Karl Parrish in Barranquilla, Colombia.