Niki Abbasi is a fifth year graduate student at the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She received her BEng. and MASc. degrees from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. At Princeton, Niki studies fluid mechanics and soft matter.

Kathryn Hollar is the Director of Community Engagement and Diversity Outreach for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and English from North Carolina State University. She works with teachers and students of all ages to increase public engagement in science and engineering.

Paul Kaneelil is a fifth year PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University where he studies fluid mechanics. He was born and raised in south India. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He loves teaching and is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton.

Jennifer Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Jennifer has made pioneering contributions to the programmable assembly of functional, structural, and living matter. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has co-founded four startups and currently serves on multiple Scientific Advisory Boards.

Janine Nunes is a research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University studying the controlled synthesis and fabrication of microfibers and microspheres using microfluidics. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BS and MSc from Morgan State. Janine is originally from Trinidad and Tobago.

Daniel Rosenberg is part of the talented lecture demonstration team in Harvard's Science Center whose creativity is on display each day in these lecture halls to elucidate the principles of science. Daniel Rosenberg is a 1984 Harvard College graduate and a chemist. Daniel has also applied his passion for science in other venues such as the annual Ig Nobel Ceremony held on campus.

Daniel Steinberg is the Director of Education Outreach for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. He received his PhD in Geophysics from Binghamton University in 1992, and has worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, where he has remotely steered the Hubble Space Telescope. Dan currently runs many educational programs for students and teachers and the public in materials science.

Howard Stone holds degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and Caltech. He joined Harvard in 1989 and moved to Princeton University in 2009. His research is in the areas of fluid dynamics, materials science, and applied mathematics. He enjoys teaching and the challenge of thinking about real-world problems.

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Sara Wenzel is the Education and Outreach Programs Coordinator for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She received her MLA in Museum Studies from Harvard University Extension School in 2013 and her BA in Art History from Boston University in 2007.