Burkett, Kathy

Ethan Flask, the sixth-grade science teacher at Einstein Elementary, and his students explore space.

Sixth-grade science teacher Ethan Flask, the last in a long line of brilliant inventors who have always been tricked out of fame and fortune by the awful von Offels, finds himself being evaluated by the original mad scientist, Johannes von Offel, for the Vanguard Teacher Award.

Good news and bad news arrive for Ethan Flask, the sixth-grade science teacher at Einstein Elementary: he is in the running for the Vanguard Teacher Award, but the judge is his archenemy, Professor John von Offel.

Mr. Flask plans to take the kids of Einstein Elementary ona field trip to the space shuttle, while one of Mr. Flask's assistants tries to prove that Professor von Offel is a ghost.

Mr. Flask tries to use scientific methods to get the soccer team of Einstein Elementary in shape to play against the Strikers, but Professor von Offel does not intend to play fair.