This school year marks the eighth year of teaching, and first year at Woodside High School for Shawn McGarrah, a physics teacher. McGarrah taught at Dublin High School for the past seven years, specializing in physics and engineering. He attended the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for structural engineering, San Francisco State (SFU) for his teaching credential and Fresno State for another teaching credential in Industrial Technology Education (ITE). Before realizing he wanted to pursue teaching, McGarrah worked as an engineer focusing on designing bridges.