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Scott "Mr.Scott" Brouette (born June 23rd, 1962) is a television host and writer for WQPT-Quad Cities PBS, an educator at Western Illinois University, and a published author. Brouette was an early childhood educator before he joined WQPT as Mr. Scott and Western Illinois University as the Assistant Director for Quad Cities Student Services and Program Director for the Western Illinois University-Quad Cities/WQPT AmeriCorps Early Childhood Literacy Project.

Education
Brouette got his Associate in Arts degree in 1983 from Moraine Valley Community College. Afterwards he double majored in Psychology and Mass Communication from Illinois State University in 1987. During a communication class project where he needed to record children, his director saw his skill in working with children and told him he should volunteer with them. Then two years later he got a third Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education. In 2010 Brouette obtained his Master of Science in Elementary Education with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education from Western Illinois University.

Career
From 1989 to 2005 he was the Lead Teacher for the Illinois State University's Child Care Center. He then transferred to Western Illinois University Infant and Preschool Center as its Lead Teacher. He continued in this position until 2013 where he took up the position of Assistant Director of Student Services at the Western Illinois University-Quad Cities Campus.

Two years later he partnered with WQPT-PBS as the host and writer of “Let’s Explore with Mr. Scott”.

“Let’s Explore with Mr. Scott” began airing in the fall of 2015 and continues to the present. The “Letter Search” episode served as the series premier and there are currently more than 30 episodes in the series.

This series is still in production with more episodes to come.

Articles
2000, “The Dog Project” The Project Approach, Catalog 3

2003, “Exploring Butterflies” The Project Approach, Catalog 4: Literacy and Project Work

2004, “Aesthetics in the Classroom” Child Care Information Exchange, Issue 155

2007, “Building Bob: Construction a Model of the Human Body” The Space: for anything about early childhood, Issue No. 7

2008, “Building ‘Bob’: A Project Exploring the Human Body at Western Illinois University Preschool Center” Early Childhood Research and Practice

2011, “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish: A Preschool Fish Project” Illinois Projects in Practice

Awards
In 2005, Brouette was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from Illinois State University for his contributions to the University. Brouette was also awarded Illinois Governor’s Volunteer Service Award for his volunteer work.