Mrs. Brix earned her B.A. in Spanish and German from the University of Northern Colorado, which included a semester studying at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. She has forty-plus graduate hours in language acquisition, gifted education and counseling. Evelyn will be completing her endorsement in ESL/ELL within a few months. She spent ten years teaching Spanish and German at the secondary level in Craig, Colorado and Adams 12 before leaving teaching to coordinate a foreign exchange student program. She’s been a member of the Stargate community since 1996 when the younger of her two daughters was a Stargate student, and she was very happy to resume her teaching career there in 2004. When not at school, she enjoys her many pets, traveling, camping, reading, music, football, old movies and, most of all, spending time with her husband, kids and granddaughter.