Cynthia Cooksey
Cynthia Cooksey is a school librarian with over fourteen years of library experience. She received her Masters of Library Science from Sam Houston State University where she developed a love for technology. One of her specialties is coding. She was the sponsor of two award winning all girls coding teams – The Coding Chicks - who were the 2015 Texas State Champions in the Wonder League Robotics Competition and the second place winners in the 2015 National Wonder League Robotics Competition and The Programming Princesses – who were first place in Texas for the 6-8 age category and the 3rd place winner in the 2016 International Wonder League Robotics Competition.. She was the 2011 winner of the “My Librarian Rocks” Award presented by the South Texas Literacy Collation, the 2015-2016 District Elementary Teacher of the Year for McAllen ISD and is the 2017 Texas State Librarian of the Year.
