about us video series our stars funding resources news order         about us board of directors david t. hartney, treasurer   David T. Hartney, Executive Director Mr. Hartney is the executive director of First Hand Learning, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that designs and teaches professional development and science curriculum under a subcontract from NSF-funded Local System Change Project at the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Mr. Hartney holds a BS in Engineering and BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and an M.A.T in Science Education from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a Science and Mathematics Teacher, a research associate at the National Science Resources Center, Associate Director of the Center for Science Education at the Buffalo Museum of Science and a curriculum developer at California Institute of Technology.