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.