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By Jett Schwaier

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Prairie Rose Public Schools teacher has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in STEM

Dec 21, 2025 | 5:00 AM

A teacher from Prairie Rose Public Schools, Angie Angle, is being honoured as a 2025 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in STEM.

STEM is an educational approach that encompasses science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Angle has been recognized for the Prime Minister’s Award based on her exceptional ability to educate her students using STEM.

Through Angle’s instruction and guidance, students at Burdett School engage in hands-on experiments, engineering projects and real-world problem-solving, helping students explore, question, and learn in engaging ways.

Angle said she was grateful but surprised to receive the award because STEM is just how she approaches teaching.

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“I was just doing my job. I want to make sure the kids are engaged in learning and believe that they can,” Angle said.

“Someone recognized some of the stuff I do in the classroom, and that the kids really enjoy what I offer them in that department.”

Angle said she wants her students to have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

“The direction our world is going is being able to experiment and work with problems, and STEM allows kids to do that without it seeming like they’re actually stuck on a problem,” Angle said.

A public announcement was made on World Teachers’ Day on Oct. 6, 2025, informing Angle that she had won the award.

Angle also teaches online science courses at South Alberta High School, making learning accessible, interactive, and meaningful for high school students.

“I’m the science department with the exception of physics. Our courses are asynchronous,” Angle said.

“It allows high school students to have that flexibility to be able to complete the courses, and it provides a whole new set of problem-solving that we need.”

Angle said her nominator, Scott Raible, asked in December of 2024 if he could nominate Angle for the award.

“He went through that process of gathering letters and evidence and things like that, and that was sent off,” Angle said

“I didn’t think anything about it for a while until I thought it was the end of summer.”

Raible highlighted that Angle’s enthusiasm for teaching extends beyond the classroom, inspiring her students.