Chris is a mechanical engineering master’s student at The Ohio State University. He has taught engineering design and Arduino coding to OSU students the last two years. Chris loves to help students turn their passions and interests into inventions while developing their STEM skills. He has also worked with the Air Force to help design more efficient cooling systems for aircraft. In his free time, Chris enjoys to build rockets, rock climb, run, and play instruments including bass, guitar, and piano.

Matthew graduated from Lehigh University with an Electrical Engineering and Product Design major. Matthew has been building robots since his sophomore year in high school, when he founded his school’s robotics club and VEX robotics team. Since then, Matthew has developed the “Robotics Crash Course,” a two-week middle school science curriculum about building Arduino robots from scratch. Matthew was also the chair of the STEAM department at the Academy of Creative Education in 2018, and worked as a Product Engineering Co-Op at Crayola in Fall 2019, designing custom 3D models to assist with testing and the product development process. His upcoming book Arduino for Artists explores using programming and electronics to facilitate artistic expression. Matthew is passionate about STEAM and design, and is excited to help students learn to make anything they can dream of!

Lea is a Mechanical Engineering major and Graphic Design minor at Michigan State University who loves combining creative problem solving and technical know-how. She has a passion for teaching kids about STEM, and throughout college has volunteered with MSU Science Theatre, traveling across Michigan to do science shows for kids. She has also lead Lego robotics and video game coding summer camps for children aged 8 – 11. In her free time, she likes to draw, sew, and play guitar.

Keaton is an Electrical Engineering student at Case Western Reserve University, currently in his Senior year. His love of
LEGOs growing up heavily influenced his choice of major. He enjoys working with arduinos in
both circuits and robotics labs at CWRU, where he is also a pitcher on the CWRU baseball team.
He loves to mentor younger students and is an assistant coach for The Rawlings Tigers 17U
baseball team in Westerville. A big Star Wars fan, Keaton’s favorite LEGO sets to construct
were the Sandcrawler and the Ewok Village. He is excited to share his experience and interest in
robotics and LEGOs with the students participating in the Robotics Summer Camps!

Ryan is an Applied Engineering Science Major at Michigan State University. He was in First Lego League since he was a 2^nd grader and competed for 8 years. Ryan loves problem solving and finding new outside the box ways to think. He got into STEM at a very young age and would like to do the same for other kids. He has a passion for helping kids with their education.  Ryan also like to spend his free time playing sports, dirt biking through the woods and programming games and apps.

Soham first learned about Robot Academy when he attended as a student many years ago. He was a member of Robot Academy’s FLL team in 2017, and helped the team to win many awards including the Global Innovation award (which recognizes the top 20 invention projects in the world for FLL). He has since created a team of his own and won the innovative solution award at the Ohio State championship. He has won awards through E-cybermisison and Exploravision as well, and has a passion for inventing. He has been working at Robot Academy for 2 years, and enjoys teaching about all the things he’s learned.

Sahithi has 7 years of FIRST robotics experience, 4 years on her High School FTC team called Moderately Confused and 3 in FLL. As a part of FLL team Robot Rights, Sahithi travelled to the Ohio State championships and World Festival many times. Her team was Global Innovation Semi-finalists in 2015 and Ohio State Champions in 2017. They even won a first place inspiration award at the FLL World Festival in 2017. Sahithi now competes on the FTC team Moderately Dangerous, and has led her team to the Ohio State Championship twice as Software Lead and Drive Coach. Sahithi graduated from Dublin High School and is attending Boston College studying Engineering.  She teaches at Kumon as a math and reading instructor for ages 3-16 and volunteers with the Columbus Zoo summer camps. Sahithi has won awards through NUMATs gifted awards, the Verizon app challenge, and was named a Dean’s List Semi-finalist in 2020. She has taken STEM related classes in and out of school, and mentors multiple FLL teams. Sahithi is passionate and immensely excited to encourage young kids to experience the fun of robotics!

Nick is an electrical engineer who loves LEGO and has a background in marine robotics. He’s worked with remote operated vehicles that explore shipwrecks and other underwater seascapes. Originally from Massachusetts, he studied at UMass Amherst and now lives in Seattle with his girlfriend Emilia and their cat Norbert. Nick loves helping students to explore robotics and have fun with STEM.

Melissa is a candy-bar powered student at Utah State University dual majoring in Marketing and Computer Science. She has a passion for STEM education and has worked with inventions, maker clubs, electronics, and junk drawer robotics. She mentored the Utah BAPC First Lego League team and has been the recipient of several technical awards including national NCWIT and IJSHS. When not experimenting with robots, she spends her time Irish dancing, baking, and rock climbing.