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As part of its efforts to teach and promote the metric system, ES-M each year hosts Mole Day. Mitchell is a key promoter of this event and was featured in a front-page story in the U.S. Metric Association's newsletter for January-February 2004.
"Mole" is a scientific term. One mole of a substance contains 6.022 times 10-to-the-23rd-power molecules.
Mitchell won the 2001 Mole of the Year Award from the National Mole Day Foundation. She plans to get her school to be the first in the country to go metric.
"The rest of the world uses metric except for the U.S.," she said.
And if all this weren't enough, Mitchell has another goal. She wants to succeed with her book "Making Perfect Fudge." "That's going to be my claim to fame," she said.
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