| Meet Our Staff |
| Founder - Dennis Mabrey | |
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Dennis has had over fifteen years of system and application level software
engineering experience in the highly competitive software development
industry. He has great passion in just about anything challenging in
computer industry. Throughout his years as senior software consultant, he has
made significant contribution and taken leading roles in some very high profile companies' both software and hardware infrastructure.
Dennis received B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware. |
| Founder - Elizabeth Mabrey | |
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Elizabeth is the founder of the unique “Storming Robots” Robotics Technology Learning Center. She has over fourteen years of system
level software engineering experience in the highly competitive software development industry.
She received her M.S. in Computer Science from Drexel U.
With her technical experiences and being a parent of 3 self-motivated academic achievers, she strongly believes in the importance of nurturing children's creativity, enforcing academic and personal disciplines, strengthening their computational and critical thinking skills, teamwork, communication and leadership skills. Elizabeth led teams to participate annual robotics competitions. She has received Mentoring Awards multiple times, and performed technical judging role, as well as won the USA RobocupJunior two times in a row to represent USA to compete in its international platform. 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. |
| Current Staff | |
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Jeffrey Goett:Jeff has been our robotics instructor at Storming Robots since 2008. Being a certified High School Science/Physics Teacher, he is currently teaching Physics, and the school robotic team coach at the Franklin Township High School. His passion in science teaching is just simply infectious. He volunteered to teach computer applications and accounting classes to underserved high school students through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. He earned his M.S. in Physics at the Rutgers University. |
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Suhagi Shah:Suhagi has been with Storming robots since 2008. She is teaching exploratory nanotechnology, and roboclub concentrating in the science track, while studying as a PhD student in biomedical sciences. She has a passion for research and teaching with focus in problem solving, team work and critical thinking. |
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Kathleen MorrisKate has been our instructor since 2007. She is a Certified Teacher specializing in Biological/Life Science. She is currently a Physical Science teacher at the Hillsborough Middle School. She earned her .B.S in Environmental Science from Rutgers University. |
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Dharati Patel:Dharati is responsible for our MicroBotics (2nd-3rd grades), as well as our Grade 4-6 beginner level. She is also full-time Assistant Director of the premier Kinder Kastle Childcar & Learning Center. Being a certified Elementary School Teacher, Dharati strives to motivate children to learn while having fun, as well as build the appreciation in disciplines. She stresses the importance of having children think critically and wants them to have a meaningful experience using a hands-on method of learning. Dharati is a graduate from the Kean University with B.S. in Education. |
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Garrick LauGarrick is our summer instructor. He is an 110% effort type of individual. In his high school years, among his long list of academic achievment, he earned the National AP Scholar, the Editor in Chief for his high school's awarding winning newspaper "The Lamp". He is currently attending the Cornell University majoring in Mechanical Engineering. |
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Matthew GoldmanMatthew helps in instructor role. He is a self-professed "computer geek". He consistently earned the highest academic honors at school. Among his long list of achievements, the latest include :- Top scorer on the American Mathematics Competition 10 (AMC 10) at Bernards High - Scored in the top ten percent on the New Jersey Science League Chemistry 1 Test. He is also an accomplished musician. Being one of our top roboclub members at Storming Robots, Matthew has played the captain role in his numerous robotic competitions since 2005. He also led a couple of teams to winning in multiple robotics competitions. |
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Michelle MetalloMichelle has been our wonderful Administrator since 2008. She retired from a financial managerial role to be a full-time mother of three young children. At her spare time, Michelle has offered her professional help in keeping Storming Robots' administrative work and policies in order. Michelle earned her MS in statistics from Rutgers University. |
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Michelle LuMichelle is the Editor in Chief of our first student run newsletter, "The Loose Gears". She is currently attending the Ridge High School in Bedminster. Besides being with a stellar academic student, she is in school's selective wind ensemble group, Forensics Debate Team. She loves writing and video editing in her free time. In addition, she has also been competitive in running half-marathons since 8th grade. |
| Our Summer workshops assistants | |
| You cannot teach robotics without the passion and hands-on learning experience yourself. In addition, it is extremely important for the instructors and assistants to have "thinking outside the box" and trouble-shooting skills. Bringing in the professional who possess those attributes will make the tuition prohibitive to most. Therefore, we found our own high school roboclub students with stellar academic record are the best resource. | |
| Our past workshops instructors/assistants | |
Traits that are common in all of our workshops assistants:
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| Our past instructors who once were also students attending Storming Robots. | |
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Kevin Fritz - Our past computer science student and instructor assistant. Kevin, like most of our roboclub students,
has stellar academic record. He graduated from High School in 2010, and
entered the University of Pennsylvania, majoring Material Science and Engineering.
Gawain Lau - Our past roboclub member and instructor. Gawain, like most of our roboclub students, has stellar academic record. He earned the National AP Scholar. He graduated from High School in 2009, and entered the University of Pennsylvania, majoring Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Johnny Wang - Our past roboclub student and instructor. Like most of our roboclub students, was an honor student in high school. He graduated from high school in 2008, and entered the Lehigh University, majoring in computer science. James Wittel - Our past roboclub member and instructor assistant. His many robotics competition achievements have earned him scholarship to study at NJIT Summer Engineering program. He is also a teen-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. |
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| General Qualification of Instructors | |
There have been a few other temporary part-time instructors who worked for
Storming Robots. All instructors and counselors must meet the following
criteria:
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| Qualification of Camp/Class Assistants | |
All camp assistants are required to:
Are you also a highly motivated individual who loves robotics and interested in joining us? Please visit our Employment page to view our available positions. | |