Susan Doring-Zook learned at an early age that no job was off limits because of gender.  Intensely curious and mechanically gifted, Susan fixed her record player before she learned to write.  Her talents and her passion took her to Purdue University where she earned a degree in engineering technology education, the only woman in her class to do so.  Highly sought after as an educator, Susan taught civil engineering and architecture, robotics and engineering to college bound high school students for nine years.  Along with earning a master’s degree, she sees her biggest achievement as creating a tech ed course, a ‘shop class’, for the students who weren’t college bound, but longed for a place where school could be ‘hands-on.’  She started with a single shop class and by the time she left her teaching career, it was the most popular class she taught. Beyond teaching, Susan is a member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsman as a juried woodworker, known for her unique and finely crafted writing instruments.  For fun she has a small business she calls ‘Girl Friday, Save Your Saturdays’ doing small home repair projects and ‘Honey Do’ lists that mostly single women need done and contractors turn down.