Tim Comolli has taught at South Burlington High School in Vermont for 35 years. He came to the school as an English teacher with a background in radio and television (he was the nation's youngest disc jockey in 1957). By the 1990s, he was teaching advertising, video production and electronic arts. He currently runs one of the best high school computer graphics facilities in New England, the South Burlington Imaging Lab http://www.siggraph.org/education/directory/schools/e_sbhs.htm).
Tim has been awarded numerous honors, including The National Technology Teacher of the Year award from Technology and Learning Magazine, The Learning Company, and Miller Freeman Publishers (1999), and the University of Vermont's "Teacher of the Year" award in 1997. Also in 1997, Tim was featured in Who's Who Among Teachers. He was the winner of both the Bill Gates "The Road Ahead" grant award in 1996 and The Henderson Foundation Grant in 1999. Tim travels the country speaking at technology conferences.