Hello! My name is Ryan Heist. I have been teaching 7th grade science at EHMIS since December of 2001. I am a graduate of West York school district. While attending West York, I participated in Student Council, Football, Basketball and Volleyball. I attended Juniata College for 2 years. I had a tremendous learning opportunity there and also played for the men's volleyball team my freshman year. I then transferred to Millersville University where I received my teaching degree in Biology and continued to play club volleyball. Coaching is a passion and I have helped coach football and girls volleyball in my early teaching years. When I started my own family, I had to put coaching to the side. I hope to get back into coaching some day. I am an avid outdoors man. I love to hunt and fish! At EHMIS, I am the Team Captain of Team 3 in 7th grade, the Science Department Team Leader and also a coordinator for our WEB program. I am also a certified Hunter-Trapper Education instructor for the Pennsylvania Game Commission.