Coaches
Mr. Hans Batra
Mr. Peter Mesnik
Mr. Dan Smalley
Bill Earl
Yasmine King
Rachel Tedrake
John Shubin
Jane Evans
Eric Slosser
Larry Marget
Alexi Sarnevitz
Past Mentors
Mark Osborne
Mr. John Kalamvokis
Ms. Karen Schramm
Mr. Batra has is a teacher at Needham High School, and has been the advisor of the club since 1999.
Mr. Mesnik has been volunteering his time with the club since 2010. He is the founder and CTO of Needham based ContextMX.
Dan started teaching at NHS in the Fall 2013, and immediately became a part of NHS Robotics. He brings many years of experience mentoring a FIRST FRC team in Boston!
President, Interactive Automation LLC
Over 30 years experience in industrial automation, scientific and biomedical instrumentation.
Bill started mentoring NHS Robotics in 2013. He took the team to Australia the summer of 2015 for the Asia Pacific Invitational FTC competition.
Ms. King brings a background of EE and applied math along with 14 years of experience in the technology industry. Currently working for Analog Devices, she has been a team mentor since 2014.
Ms. Tedrake has been a Research Engineer at Busek Co., Inc. for 14 years. She looks forward to her first year of volunteering with the club in the 2014.
Mr. Shubin started volunteering in 2015. He chaperoned the team to the Super Regional East competition in Scranton, PA in 2016
Ms Evans started volunteering in 2016. She has a background in electrical engineering.
Eric Slosser is a parent of a current club member. His professional experience is in applications software, on Apple's macOS and iOS. His hobbies include ‘cello, boats, and repairing things (occasionally electric, mostly wood or metal). Eric started volunteering in the Fall of 2018.
Mr. Osborne has a PhD in Molecular Biology with experience in computer programming and project management. His sons are former and current members of the NHS Robotics team. He started volunteering in 2015.
Mr. Kalamvokis is a parent of a current club member, and has been actively supporting the club since 2009
Ms. Schramm has been volunteering her time since 2012. She is a Vice President of engineering at Broadcom.