Dr. Mauer-Oats, or Doc Mo, has been a computer science teacher at Whitney Young for 10 years. He is currently teaching Intermediate Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, AP Computer Science A, and Microarchitecture. His primary teaching philosophies include doing hands-on projects and creating things. He believes that struggle and uncertainty are the keys to learning. Doc Mo is also a second-degree (nidan) black belt in Shotokan Karate.Â