Mary Liscombe is the Associate Director of the Christa McAuliffe Center and Challenger Learning Center. Mary completed her undergraduate work at Framingham State College, and holds a Master of Education in Technology from Lesley University.

Her classroom experiences include teaching science at the Middle Schools in Holliston, MA and Blackstone-Millville, MA as well as having been head of the science program at the Charles River School in Dover, MA. There her duties included curriculum development, science fair coordinator, and chairperson of the faculty Community Service Committee. 

As Associate Director of the Challenger Learning Center, Mary enjoys working with both pre-service and in-service teachers to promote inquiry-based, hands-on learning in the classroom and the advancement of the use of technology. Recently she completed Teacher Leader Workshops in the NASA Classroom of the Future's Astronomy Village and is co-investigator with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Education Department for SEDNet, a dissemination grant program in support of Project Aries, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Mary is also a PALMS teacher leader.