ABOUT US
TABELECH “TK the Chemist” SHIPP is often described as an innovative and creative scientists and teacher. She has given a lot of time in creating science lessons for children for more than a decade. She enjoys teaching and loves telling all about the joys of science. Although many people typically think of science is hard, boring or even meaningless, Mrs. Shipp ensures her crowd that science is what you make it. She says that science can be an enjoyable experience wthat you must emabrace because "Science is everywhere!"
Mrs. Shipp graduated from North Carolina A & T State University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional Chemistry and a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park where she received her Masters of Life Science with Chemistry and Biology. Mrs. Shipp has touched the lives of so many young people by teaching not only several areas of science to both middle and high school students, but she has also taught GED to both boot camp inmates as well as the non traditional high school students. Mrs. Shipp taught Human Resource Developmental skills to boot camp inmates with the correctional facilities, in which she instilled different values in their lives to enhance their future development. She is a member many educational and professional scientific organizations including the Professional Educators of North Carolina, North Carolina Science Teachers Association, National Science Teacher Association, and the American Chemical Society. In addition to being a member of these professional organizations, she is also a registered member of the Better Business Bureau.
Shipp is the founder and educational science consultant of MYGEMS, which is a scientific enrichment program that provides scientific awareness among children of various ethnic groups and young girls through hands-on science activities. Besides being an educational consultant and motivational speaker, Shipp is also a Chemistry Instructor with Rowan Cabarrus Community College and a part time science teacher with the MSEN Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Shipp was recently nominated during the Spring 2008 Semester at RCCC for the Excellence in Teachers Award.
WHAT IS MYGEMS? 
MYGEMS is a science educational organization that was founded in 2001 with the purpose that all children could learn to love science as a result of gaining empowerment and motivation, with excitement and confidence from various individuals who impart knowledge within a child’s life, relative to science.
This program came into fruition, as a result of former high school science teacher and founder of MYGEMS , Tabelech Shipp, began to see where many students deem science to be boring and hard, yet on the other hand, there are a lot of students who have an appreciation for science because of the solid foundation that was built before them, as early as elementary school. From biology to bioengineering, cooking to chemistry, and tadpoles to telescopes, students can be exposed at an early age to mathematics and science, in order to gain a better appreciation for them. Every experience can easily be turned into a science lesson.
MYGEMS is both an enriching and unique educational science program that offers excitement to the children in an entertaining, yet educational format . MYGEMS shows compassion for all diverse learners by exploring ways of enriching science education for all.
In 2007, MYGEMS expanded to open up the MYGEMS Science Center of Concord where Mayor Scott Padgett and Councilwoman Ella Small endorsed our science education programs with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
Objectives
- Increase scientific awareness among children of various ethnic diverse groups.
- Encourage children to begin to like science at an early age.
- Provide relevant, interesting and challenging science activities for all children.
- Build self-confidence and self-esteem in the areas of science.
- Encourage students to complete a four-stage cycle in learning science at includes: focus, explore, reflect, and apply.
- Increase young girls self-confidence and efficacy in science by exposing them to multiple experiences through creativity.
- Promote multicultural experiences and academic enrichment activities that teach about contributions of scientists and inventors of different ethnic groups.