Ryan is an Applied Engineering Science Major at Michigan State University in his Senior year.  He has experience with all three robots: LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor, LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, and Robot Academy’s Arduino LEGO Robot.  He was in First Lego League since he was a 2^nd grader and competed for 8 years with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3. 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.

David is a Mechanical Engineering Junior at George Fox University. All throughout grade school, he participated in First Lego League as both a team leader and later in high school and college as an Assistant Coach. When not working on School work or helping with LEGO robotics, David works as a Lab Technician in the Prototype Lab where he helps train new students how to use the 3D printers and other machines in the lab. David is a huge Star Wars fan with fond memories of building Lego sets with his dad and play Lego Star Wars games for the first time. This love of Star Wars has led to many projects using Arduinos and Lego EV3s based around the franchise (Lego R2D2 was a more recent one). In general, he loves teaching students the fun side of Engineering and how to look at the world through an engineering mindset and is excited to share his experience in Lego robotics and engineering with students at Robot Academy.

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 enjoys sharing his experience and interest in
robotics and LEGOs with the students participating in the Robotics Summer Camps and online!

Pamela is a Mechanical Engineering masters student studying Human Robot Interaction at Tufts University.  She uses LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 in her coursework and if proficient in teaching LEGO MINDSTORMS.  Previously, she worked on a combination of neuroscience, robotics, biology, and cognitive science at Vassar College. She enjoys bringing biological inspired designs to the robots she works on.  Pam reads lots of philosophy and quantum physics and loves chatting cool, sci-fi tv-shows.  A previous actor (Shameless, Gotham, Madam Secretary, Chicago PD) who trained at Second City, she’s obsessed with plays and the theatre.

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!