About Our Staff

Her role includes not only overseeing development and operations of programs at the center, but also teaching the advanced groups in competitions and mentoring independent projects. While she enjoyed mentoring students to lead others, either competitive teams, or instructors, she is still deeply a software engineer in heart.

She is among the 160 recipients of the the Presidential Scholars Program’s Distinguished Teachers Award in 2019. She has been an active member in the AI-oriented RobocupJunior International Technical Committee between 2012 and 2014, 2019 to present. She currently is one of the Board member of the Raritan Valley Math Group. She received her Masters of Science in Computer Science from Drexel University.

She firmly believes in an application-based robotics curriculum as a tool for helping our children meet unpredictable challenges in the future global market. Capitalizing creativity with engineering disciplines is the foundation for building our next generation. She has created a systematic learning roadmap, and a unique Algorithms in C/C++ syllabus as pathway to allow many students to strive in their own STEM interets.

Elizabeth hopes more institutions will replicate Storming Robots' efforts and achievements to equip a new generation with strong, analytical-thinking skills.

Why Storming Robots:

While she loved working in the dynamic, corporate technological environment, one of her ambitions is to be part of something that might potentially impact the world. She found working 60+ hours weekly purely for profit company rather than more meaningful purposes simply didn't suit her aspirations to be a positive influence.

Throughout her children's primary school years, due to lack of challenge from school, she semi-homeschooled her children. That means she spent early evening and part of weekends to work with her children with challenging academic materials, while they attended regular school classes during weekdays.

Her children have become independent learners since late middle school. Her sons obtained their Masters of Science in Aerospace and Bachelors of Science in Molecular chemistry, from Cornell and UPenn, respectively. Both have successfully pursued exciting careers in the corporate world. Meanwhile, her nephew, like her 3rd son, became an up-and-coming software freelancer.

As a first-generation immigrant to the U.S., she felt sincere gratitude for the opportunities this country has offered her. Her children's independency and husband's encouragement have allowed her to pursue her a new path to make a difference.

All Instructors /Assistants  and Their Common Traits

Our instructors and assistants are individuals who are engaged in robotics throughout the school year, not seasonal.

Since Storming Robots is an educational facility focusing in robotics engineering and computer science throughout the year, we are able to provide level of experience and competency in the subject matter incomparable among grade-school levels institutions.

Our instructors consist of:

• Certified teaching professional.
• College top-notch engineering students.
• Our own in-house high school students. Characteristics of these students:
  • They are role models for inspiring students in pursuing science and engineering. However, far more important than that, it is the intrinsic trait of self-motivation and intense desire of self-enrichment attitude.
  • Stellar academic record and experience in robotics.
  • Many of them have earned AP Scholar to National AP Scholar Award, and along with many other achievements.
  • They not only are high academic achievers, but also have collected competitive experience in robotics, such as winning the  national MIT/NASA Robotics Competition, and International level artificial-intelligence oriented Robotics Competition.
• All Grade 7+ Level II+ instructors possess skills above requirement from the RobotC Instructors Certification awarded by the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy.
• Individuals who carry  the energy of "Trying Your Best"  and "Responsibility in Own Learning" attitude.

All adult staffs have passed criminal background check, of course. 

Having great passion for both all things in electrical and helping others to understand since childhood, Michael transformed the program at the high school to cover from basic analog circuits all the way through modern wireless control technology.

While teaching, he spent several years volunteering for and organizing robotics competitions for FIRST and Vex competitions, mentoring teams, and helping develop robotics courses for after school and summer programs.

Enjoying spending time with his new family in 2015, he is excited to join Storming Robots to continue on expanding his electronic engineering pedagogy knowledge-base through the extracurricular robotics world.

Outside of robotics, he has spent several years volunteering as an EMT and enjoys the occasional outdoor adventure.

All of them have been with Storming Robots since their lower grade. Many have graduated to College. Go here to view their College Acceptances Portfolio for these high school students/instructors .