OUR TEAM

SOPHIA ALI

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Piano, Reading, Hiking

Sub-Team: Mechanical & Game Strategy

Goals for this robotics season:  Learn more about the other subteams and work with them more, especially business.

Why I joined the team: I joined because it would give me good hands on experience for the field I want to go into and I stayed because the teams vibe is awesome.

AARUSHI BANERJEE

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Singing, Dance, Violin, Piano

Sub-Team: Software & Business

Goals for this robotics season: To be able to successfully plan and execute outreach events and to continue improving my programming skills for the robot. 

Why I joined the team: I wanted to experience how being in a robotics team would be like so that I can decide whether this is something I would like doing in the future. 

ABBY CONNELLY

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Math club, environmental club, NHS, drawing, CAD   

Sub-Team: Mechanical

Goals for this robotics season:  Learn a bunch and help my team as much as I can.

How I am going to accomplish this goal: Ask as many questions as possible.

Why I joined the team: o gain experience and I also like to CAD

DEEPA DHANDAPANI

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Volleyball, Dance

Sub-Team: Software & Hardware

Goals for this robotics season:  My goal for this year is to learn as much as I can about the design processes and about my sub teams.

Why I joined the team: As a career I would like to be something STEAM related maybe but I don’t have a clear idea of what I want to do yet. 

LANA ESSA

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Volleyball, Dance

Sub-Team: Software & Hardware

Goals for this robotics season:  My goal for this year is to learn as much as I can about the design processes and about my sub teams.

Why I joined the team: As a career I would like to be something STEAM related maybe but I don’t have a clear idea of what I want to do yet. 

TIYASHA EXPEDITH

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Soccer, Flute, FTC 

Sub-Team: Mechanical

Goals for this robotics season: I want to get to know the parts of the robot and learn how to build everything like chassis and where and how to attach the wheels.

Why I joined the team: To further boost my FIRST path (I was in FLL before I joined).

SARAH GREWAL

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Karate, Softball, Math team, German club, Band, Track

Sub-Team: Mechanical

Goals for this robotics season: To learn how to CAD.

Why I joined the team: I'm interested in pursuing a STEAM career, and FTC is a amazing way to help 

VINAYA KACHINENI

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  Volleyball, Science Bowl, NJHS, Mock Trial.

Sub-team: Mechanical & Business

Goals for this robotics season: To learn about how the robots are made and the mechanics behind it.

Why I joined the team: I joined Superstellar because I wanted to expand my knowledge about robotics and experience what being on a robotics team is like.

NOOTHANA KOSURI

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Student Council, tennis, art, piano, track, and soccer

Sub-Team: Business

Goals for this robotics season: My goal is to be able to talk to people more easily, meet new people and be friends with them. 

Why I joined the team: Joining Superstellar was a "step-up" from FLL so I am trying something new, instead of using Legos, I will be focusing on something that has always interested me, which is business. 

HASINI MANNE

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Violin, Piano, Dance, FBLA/DECA, FTC, Photography, math team, and French club.

Sub-Team: Business

Goals for this robotics season:  To better communicate with others both in the team, and in the professional world.

Why I joined the team: To gain a new experience.

VAISHNAVI MAYYA

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Dance, Track, Reading 

Sub-Team: Software & Business

Goals for this robotics season: Learn about April tags and plan for outreach to the community. 

Why I joined this team: I wanted to learn programming and be a part of a team. 

SAINA MEHTA

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  Piano, Dance, Tae Kwon Do + School clubs

Sub-Team: Mechanical

Goals for this robotics season:  I want help and learn how to mechanically build a robot as a team.

Why I joined this team: To strengthen my skills in robotics and to learn more. 

JENNY MEI

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  BEHS Varsity swim, EBSC Swim, piano, student council, CCA, listening to music

Sub-Team: Mechanical

Goals for this robotics season: Build a more efficient and reliable robot, ask questions, and always seek to learn more.

Why I joined this team: I liked building things and engineering/robotics seemed like fun to me.

ADITI MOORCHING

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  Dance, Piano, Debate

Sub-Team: Software & Game Strategy

Goals for this robotics season: Working more independently.

Why I joined this team: I wanted to engage with STEAM while working with other girls, when most other STEAM organizations were mostly boys. 

KEERTHIKA NANDAGOPAL

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  Swimming, Art

Sub-Team: Software

Goals for this robotics season: To get to know about robots and how they work. 

Why I joined this team: To learn more about robots and gain experience in programming.



SARAH NI

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  Swimming, piano, violin

Sub-Team: Mechanical

Goals for this robotics season: I want to help prepare the new members to get a feel for FTC. 

Why I joined this team: I joined Superstellar to gain new experiences and learn more about machines and how they make up the world around us. 

STELLA RUIZ

Extracurriculars/hobbies: Speed skating, Tennis, Taekwondo, Ski club 

Sub-Team: Software

Goals for this robotics season: I hope to learn something new (involving the robot itself, and coding hardware), to improve my teamwork skills, and to just have fun doing robotics!

Why I joined this team: I joined Superstellar because I saw a robotics club for only girls, and I thought that was really perfect for my situation, as I had already known how to code, but I didn't know many others I could do it with, so this is where I decided to join the club.

VIVIANN SENGER

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  Dance, Dungeons and Dragons, Environmental Club and Costume Crew

Sub-Team: Software

Goals for this robotics season: Learn basic programming.

Why I joined this team: I joined the team to learn new things and connect with other people.

ESHA SOMANCHI

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  Dance

Sub-Team: Software

Goals for this robotics season:  Learn software and make new friends 

Why I joined this team: I love to program and I am very interested on how to build a robot.

LASYA SOMANCHI

Extracurriculars/hobbies:  FTC, Dance, Myso, Indian classical music

Sub-Team: Software

Goals for this robotics season: Learn how to program a robot. 

Why I joined this team: I joined because I really like robotics, programing and working as a team.