Obe is NETS*T certified, Smartboard Exemplary Educator, was JFHMS Teacher of the Year and won the Governor's Innovative Technology grant for outstanding integration of technology in the classroom.  In 2012, Obe was the keynote speaker for the Pomeroy SMART Conference in Charleston, WV.  In Sept 2014, he achieved his Google Educator Certification.  

He has presented at JMU,  EMU,  NTTI,  VEMA,  VSTE,  VDOE,  ISTE andTeacher2Teacher Conferences. He is known for his ability to assist teachers in bringing lessons alive especially through the use of games, ipad apps, advanced web searches for classroom content, Virtual Reality, SMART Boards, Scratch programming, Discovery Education, Touchcast Studio, Nearpod, Quia assessments and multimedia.  

Obe has helped the technicians in the summer for RCPS.  He also has signification network and troubleshooting skills for Windows and Mac computers.

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Obe loves adventure. Some of his adventures include: climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, hang gliding in North Carolina, spelunking in Virginia, white water rafting in West Virginia and Costa Rica.  

In Obe's spare time, he loves to go camping, hiking, reading books and biking.  He loves to bike with his two kids.  As a result, he has created a document with tips of where to take kids biking.  Download the Word file here.

Obe has a desire to bike all the rails to trails in Virginia.  Obe has completed biking the whole 184.5 miles on the C&O Bike trail as well as the whole 150 miles on the  Allegheny Bike Trail