Mr. Spahn was born and raised in South Milwaukee, WI before moving to Florida for an undergraduate education at Florida Tech. In 2013, he received his B.S. degree with a double major in astrophysics and mathematical sciences. Mr. Spahn then moved to Texas to pursue a masters degree in physics at Texas A&M University-Commerce, which he obtained in 2015. During this time, he also served as a teaching assistant, a research assistant, stockroom manager, and was the president of the Society of Physics Students chapter. In 2014, he was awarded an NSF STEM scholarship for his research of a cataclysmic variable star system and an AAPT outstanding physics teaching assistant award for his contributions in the classroom. Mr. Spahn joined the faculty at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in 2015 and now teaches courses in Physics 1, Physics 2, Astronomy, Earth Science, concepts in physics, and Physical Science, and has earned back-to-back excellence in teaching awards in both 2020 and 2021.