Yorkville High School Computer Science

Mrs. Kim Etienne - ketienne@y115.org

Mrs. Kim Etienne went to Mt. Zion High School in Mt. Zion, Illinois (just outside of Decatur) and currently lives in Sycamore with her husband, Michael, and son, Samuel. In addition, she has two daughters and a granddaughter. Mrs. Etienne has also lived in Germany, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Colorado. She graduated from Illinois State University with a B.S. in Business Education where she made the dean’s list multiple times.

Due to her travels, Mrs. Etienne left teaching and worked in the business field for many years. Many of those years were spent as an executive assistant to a company vice president, supervising an office of approximately 20 employees and overseeing travel arrangements that took employees all over the world. In addition, there was time spent in administration at a collection agency and in grain accounting where she was responsible for collecting and paying multi-million dollar contracts with customers from other countries.

Mrs. Etienne's had always hoped to return to teaching high school one day and when the opportunity presented itself she jumped. Her first year back in the field was at Eisenhower High School in Decatur. Within a month of school starting her husband changed jobs and moved to Sycamore. She made the difficult decision to stay in Decatur for the full year and moved that summer. She has been at Yorkville since.

Mr. Derek Miller - demiller@y115.org

Mr. Miller went to Lake Park High School in Roselle, Illinois and currently lives in Naperville with his wife, Christie, son, Paul, daughter, Dani, and twin boys Luc and Sam. Mr. Miller graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana with a B.S. in Statistics and Computer Science. Mr. Miller taught computer workshops at a summer camp during his junior year of college, which is what led him to teaching. He earned his Masters and teaching certificate from Aurora University, and is currently working on his Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction at Northern Illinois University.

In addition to teaching, Mr. Miller is a track and cross country coach. He coaches cross country at the middle school, and has been the head cross country coach since the program was founded in 2008. He was the junior varsity distance coach for the high school track team in the spring from 2009 through 2015. His middle school cross country team has been to State every year since 2010.