Melodie Surratt

Melodie Surratt teaches in the Chesapeake Public School District as the Computer Science teacher at Deep Creek Middle School. She is a U.S. Navy Veteran, with an BSBM who did a career switcher program at ODU to earn her MSEd. She's been teaching since 2012 and has spent 7 years in grades 3-5 and the rest in middle school. She is passionate about STEM and has a personal goal to help bring computer science to the underrepresented populations in tech. She has coached underwater robotics with SeaPerch for 2 years and has been coaching VEX IQ robotics teams since 2018. She is also an event partner for REC Foundation and hosts an annual tournament in February in Chesapeake, open to all Virginia VEX IQ teams.

She has been with CodeVA since 2022 and in 2023 became a facilitator. She absolutely loves computer science and is excited to show educators how coding can be implemented into the elementary and middle school classrooms.