Ginger Conwell isn't the type of teacher that the second graders at George Washington Carver Elementary School in Santa Ana, California, are used to. For one thing, she's an engineer—a female engineer—one who plans and coordinates multimillion‐dollar graphic‐systems projects. And, before launching into today's lesson on airplane flight, she tells them, “You don't have to take notes. If you don't learn anything, that's okay.”