With her technical experiences and being a parent of 3 self-motivated academic achievers, she strongly believe in the importance of nurturing children's creativity, enforcing academic and personal disciplines, and strengthening their critical thinking skills, teamwork, communication and leadership skills. 

She believes in using robotics curriculum as a great tool to help our children to meet the unpredictable challenges in the future global market by focusing on the development of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics as the core foundation for our children academic and intellectual development. 
 

Netzin received a Masters from Princeton University in 1995, and has been a researcher in multiple scientific disciplines for over 15 years. She is particularly interested in GIS aware robotic systems.   Aligning with the director’s dream, she aims to establish a science-centric institute for children, with an emphasis on critical thinking/logic and a problem-based approach to learning.
 

He currently is a high school physics teacher at Franklin Township High School. He has great passion in science education.  He volunteered to teach computer applications and accounting classes to underserved high school students through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.  He obtained M.S. in Physics at the Rutgers University.  

He is currently responsible for our 4th to 12th grader workshops.

Ms. Patel is a graduate from the Kean University with BS in Education, specializing in Elementary education.  She is responsible for our MicroBotics, and all 2nd-3rd grades workshops.  Being a certified Elementary School Teacher, Dharati strives to motivate children to have fun while learning. She stresses the importance of having children think critically and wants them to have a meaningful experience using a hands-on method of learning.
 

Matthew Goldman  - Matt, a self-professed "computer geek", is a high school Honor Freshman. He is passionate with computers especially Apple Mac. He consistently earned the highest academic honors at school, and was the head of the School's Technical Crew. He was named to Who's Who among Middle School Students for all three of his middle school years.  Achieving over 2000/2400 SAT at his 8th grade year. Being an accomplished musician, Matt has won several Outstanding Achievement Awards from Calderone School of Music for his guitar playing. Matt has been involved with Storming Robots since 2005, serving as the captain of the numerous robotic competitions since 2005. He also coached a winning team in 2007 FLL.

Garrick Lau - Garrick is currently a high school senior.   His scholastic background is also nothing less than impressive.  Some include earning over 1200/1600 SAT at his 8th grade year, being in top 1% in his high school, has been the Chief Editor of the award winning school newspaper "The Lamb" since his junior year, a member of the National Honor Society, a National Merit Scholar.   Consistently challenging himself and putting in 110% effort is simply his way of life. 

James Wittel - James is currently a Homeschooled high school senior. He has played the major development role in the superb Robot Competitive Team named Team Overdrive for the last four years, and has continuously won the FIRST NJ State Championship in the past 3 years. His many robotics competition achievements have earned him scholarship to study at NJIT Summer Engineering program in the past two summers. He is also an entrepreneur. He owns and runs his own company called JPEX Production (a photography/videoing firm), as well as create a small web farm for his friends at his basement.

Gawain Lau - Gawain,  2008 NJ Governor School scholar, is currently attending University of Pennsylvania majoring in Chemical Engineering.   His academic path has been filled with nothing less than impressive.

Johnny Wang - Johnny is currently studying at the Lehigh University majoring in Computer Engineering. He is currently the webmaster for Lehigh University Chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

• Pass the criminal background check
• Already have had or currently pursue Bachelor Degree in science or education.
• Have outstanding academic records.
• Have credential in their experience working with children, such as past camp counselors, teachers, etc..

• pass the criminal background check.
• have outstanding academic background.
• have experience in robotics, either robotics club or competition.
• have experience working with younger children.