Meet the STARBASE PETERSON Team

 STARBASE Peterson Director

Sarah has a career spanning more than 20 years and a variety of educational roles. She is passionate about bringing the love of STEM to youth of all ages and backgrounds.

After moving back and forth between the USA and Europe several times as an Air Force spouse, her family settled in Colorado Springs in 2014. She taught 5th grade for two years in CSSD11, bringing her students to STARBASE  both  years before joining the STARBASE team as a full time instructor in 2017. In October 2021 Sarah moved into the role of Director where she continues working to share the DOD STARBASE program with as many of our community's youth as possible.

 Deputy Director

Bio coming soon

Instructor

Carolyn moved to Colorado Springs after receiving her Bachelor's degree in Secondary Mathematics Education from Indiana University. Living in Indiana her whole life, she is enjoying all of the beautiful scenery that Colorado has to offer. She loves all things math and working with students. 

Carolyn joined the STARBASE team in September 2021 and is excited to begin her teaching career here!  

Instructor

Indigo is a recent graduate from UCCS where she received her bachelor’s in Elementary

Education. She is a Colorado native and moved to Colorado Springs in 2015 from a small

mountain town. She enjoys reading, ice skating, playing with her puppy, and playing board

games with her family. She is a lifetime lover of all things science and is excited to share that

passion with students. 

Indigo joined STARBASE in 2022 and helped pilot a 2.0 program to extend

STEM curriculum to middle schoolers.

Instructor

With a dad in the military, Madison grew up moving around the United States before she landed in Colorado with her family in 2007. She has always had a love for math and decided she wanted to be a math teacher when she was in middle school. She also loves music and has been playing the viola for 15 years, performing with the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House while in high school. 

Madison graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with an emphasis in Secondary Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 2022. She substitute taught in Denver during the fall of 2022 and landed at Starbase in February of 2023. She is very excited to teach STEM to students in her first classroom.

Instructor

Bio coming soon