Our Team
Kids Teach Tech is an organization run by a team of youth leaders who create and teach classes for their community, the nation, and internationally.
Arjun Mulchandani
Arjun Banerjee Mulchandani is the Founder and CEO of Kids Teach Tech (KTT). From the time he started KTT in 2017, when he was 10 years old, Arjun's favorite time to lead the KTT Team has been during 5 years of Annual Summer Camps at UC Berkeley Engineering, where Arjun is the Live Instructor of his favorite custom crafted curriculum. He lead KTT to win the 2024 East Bay Economic Development Association (EDA) Innovation Award for Education, in 2020 was featured with Kids Teach Tech in Diablo Magazine's 2020 "Agents of Change", was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Presidential Service Award (PVSA) in 2025, and was awarded KTT's 2025 Chairman's Award from the Board of Directors at our annual "Share The Power Awards & Gala". Read more about Arjun in "Kids Teach Tech In The News" on our website homepage.
Anna Chan
Anna is Director of Python Curriculum at Kids Teach Tech. She recently graduated from High School and is attending college at MIT. In 2025, Anna was awarded the KTT MVP Award and a Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA). She created Kids Teach Tech's famous Python 3 Class Series to teach Python concepts with fun projects and games. Anna loves coding with HTML/CSS to make websites, so she was a leader on the curriculum development team for our Create Your Own Website Class Series. She felt many people don’t know much about coding, so when she heard about Kids Teach Tech and their mission, she was inspired to join and help make a difference!
Jacob Trentini
Jacob is Director of Mobile App Development Curriculum at Kids Teach Tech, a Camp Teacher, and loves robotics as well as teaching people programming! He is developing a Drone building, coding, and potentially flying class for KTT. He received a Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) in 2025. Jacob also enjoys coding Full-Stack-Websites with HTML, CSS, and Python and combining them in another language called Flask. He loves teaching kids coding and hopes that he can contribute a large amount of his information towards this amazing non-profit organization, Kids Teach Tech and everyone out in the universe!
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Lucas Speier
Lucas is a Kids Teach Tech Alumni Advisor, attending college at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a President's Lifetime Achievement PVSA Award winner through KTT. Before graduating High School, he was KTT's Director of Operations, Camp Creator and Director, and Live Instructor. He created many of KTT's first virtual full time summer camps and classes during Covid including Pacman, Tetris, Crossy Road, Space Explorer, and Website Development. He designed and coded the KTT Website, the Team Portal, and the technology infrastructure behind the scenes for applications and contact management. He spent countless hours helping to make Kids Teach Tech successful. He has always loved to code, knows many different coding languages, and loves teaching.
Chioma Onyema
Chioma is KTT's Director of Student Experiences and a Camp Teacher. She was KTT's 2025 Community Champion and a Gold PVSA Award recipient at our annual "Share The Power Awards & Gala". She found her passion for coding as an elementary school student, and quickly joined KTT after attending a few of our engaging classes with lively teachers. Chioma lead KTT's Martin Luther King Coding Class and Creativity Contest in 2023 and 2024, showcasing wonderful creativity and talent. In addition to teaching, she created fun comprehension games to further engage the students at KTT's UC Berkeley Summer Camps. Beyond technology, Chioma loves to play volleyball, read, write, draw and bake cookies. Chioma hopes that she leaves a positive impact on each and every student she teaches, and that they too grow a love for tech.
Nicholas Wong
Nicholas is the Director of 3D Design and Printing Curriculum at Kids Teach Tech, Club Lead for Kids Teach Tech at Dougherty Valley High School, a Camp Teacher, and Teacher Trainer. He created and led Kids Teach Tech's Industrial Design Camp Committee and the resulting incredibly successful full time summer camp. He has taught many of Kids Teach Tech's classes over his last 6 years with the organization, including pre-COVID classes at Boys and Girls Club in Oakland, Oakland Parks and Recreation, and Oakland Libraries. He loves to teach other kids and make an impact in his community, and is always excited to do that with Kids Teach Tech. In his free time, he likes to read and play bass.
Isra Celik
Isra Celik is Director of Teaching Strategy and a camp teacher at KTT. She was the recipient of KTT's 2025 Heart of Kids Teach Tech award at our annual "Share The Power Awards & Gala", and on the Curriculum Design team for the our Create Your Own Website Class Series. She was thrilled to be given the opportunity to join the KTT team and has had a passion for coding since the first summer class she took in 4th grade. She enjoys coding in Python and Javascript but also has a hobby of rollerblading and reading in her free time. KTT is a perfect fit for her since she loves that the ability to share her knowledge and collaborate with others about programming makes the impact so much more powerful.
Tal Lerner
Tal is KTT's Director of Quality Assurance and Language Support. He is also a Camp Teacher at KTT's UC Berkeley Engineering Summer Camps and Curriculum Designer. Over 7 years ago, Tal was so excited about Arjun's idea to teach kids who would not usually be able to take programming classes he wanted to join him, and was the first team member to join Arjun at KTT. He helped with many of KTT's pre and post COVID classes in Oakland and across the Bay Area, and virtually during COVID. He is creating new curriculum focused on Google Products and AI, and is interested in data science and coding in Java, Python, and R. Tal is also founding a KTT Club at his High School.
Eka Yang
Eka is a Regional Director for the Tri-Valley area at Kids Teach Tech. She discovered her passion for teaching technology during the summer after her sophomore year. She was inspired by KTT’s mission to empower students through hands-on tech education. The following summer, she founded the KTT club at Dougherty Valley High School to bring that mission to her local community. As Regional Director, Eka will help plan and coordinate classes across the Tri-Valley region throughout the school year. She also teaches classes and organizes team bonding events to strengthen the KTT community. Eka is excited to continue growing KTT’s impact and inspiring more students to explore the world of technology.
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Mikael Akpala
Mikael is a KTT Alum at Cornell University. Before graduating he was KTT's Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a Live Instructor, and KTT Community Champion Awardee at our annual "Share The Power Awards & Gala". Mikael was a KTT live instructor and leader for programs with Sony and the Warriors. He started taking Scratch courses at the age of 7 and his goal is to use his teaching and coding to create a fun environment for kids of all ages.
Elane Shane
Elane is KTT's Director of Virtual Learning and Marketing. She joined KTT while in High School and is continuing actively while in college at UC Irvine studying Computer Science and Computer Engineering. When she heard about KTT, she knew that she wanted to be a part of this amazing community, learn new software programming languages and techniques, and share the knowledge with others so that they too can develop their interest in computer science and coding!
Mihir Manghani
Mihir is Director of KTT's Prompt Engineering Curriculum and Camp Teacher for KTT's UC Berkeley and 3D Printing Summer Camps. Mihir leads the KTT Club at his high school including KTT “Common Classroom” sessions. Mihir is looking forward to teaching his KTT Prompt Engineering Curriculum and is creating an ebook on the subject. He has a Gold PVSA Award for his volunteer and leadership work through KTT.
Cole McGinnis
Cole is Director of Technology, Live Instructor, and Teacher Trainer at KTT. He joined in 2020, received KTT's "Technology Innovator" and Gold PVSA awards in 2025 at our annual "Share The Power Awards & Gala", was on the Curriculum team for our "Create Your Own Website Class Series" and 3D Printing Camp, and has taught hundreds of students. He enjoys programming in many languages including JavaScript, HTML & CSS, Java, and C#.
Preet Kaur
Preet is Kids Teach Tech's Summer Camp Director, Teacher Trainer, and Director of Operations. She supported the planning, logistics, and execution of KTT's 2025 summer camp. She is also a Regional Director for the East Bay area and excited to expand the KTT's local impact and create more opportunities for students. Outside of teaching, she enjoys speech & debate and playing tennis.
Aliyus Cross
Aliyus is a teacher who started as a student in Kids Teach Tech's summer camps. He quickly joined the team, helping in the 3D Printing Curriculum Development Team, and teaching for that summer camp. He helped through the year and then as a Teacher for both the 2025 STEM Innovation Camp and Advanced AI camp at UC Berkeley.
Alexandra Spoto
Alexandra is KTT Director for classes in Europe, Director of Teacher Training, Camp Teacher, and Gold PVSA awardee who loves coding and joined to help other kids learn. She jumped right in to teach students in KTT Comcast Game Coding Camp and helped prepare our Teaching Team for Engineering Summer Camp, where she was also a Teacher at UC Berkeley!
Gus von Metzsch
Gus is a KTT Alum at Princeton University. Before graduating, Gus was Director of Java Curriculum at KTT. He enjoys programming many different things and loves helping teach more people with KTT. Gus heard about KTT in 2020 and immediately wanted to join.
Tara Mulchandani
Tara is Director of People, Camp Teacher Trainer, Live Instructor, a recipient of 2025 KTT "Rising Star" and Gold Level PVSA Awards at our annual "Share The Power Awards & Gala", and created and taught an advanced Python Class for Girl Power 2025. She prepared hundreds of computers for our summer camps and has been a team member since the organization was founded in 2017. She began teaching Scratch during Covid using a playgroup style model to younger siblings of team members who graduated and joined the teaching team, and was the former Director of Scratch Curriculum.
Jasmine Barba
Jasmine Barba is a Director for Latin Outreach who is in college in Santa Barbara studying Industrial Engineering. She has been a part of KTT since 2022. She is passionate about there being more diversity it STEM.
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Aahan Bagga
Aahan is a KTT Alum at UC Berkeley studying Data Science and Computer Science. Before graduating he was KTT's Director of Teacher Development, Camp Director, Curriculum Designer, and Live Instructor at Kids Teach Tech. He liked Arjun's idea about teaching kids that did not have the chance to learn coding. Once he heard Arjun's mission, he wanted to help instantly. He creates games in Python, and teaches it too!
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Samantha Henry
Samantha is a KTT Alum at UC Irvine. Before graduating she was KTT's Director of People, Live Instructor, Curriculum Designer, and Technical Trainer. Her introduction to coding started with Scratch and her learning evolved while attending robotics after school activities. Samantha is thrilled to support, inspire, and motivate children in a fun learning environment!
Shrawani Raj
Shrawani is a Regional Lead for Oakland, a KTT Camp Teacher, and she likes to help with KTT Team events. She is also leading a KTT club at her High School. She wanted to join Kids Teach Tech because she is a big people person and she enjoys explaining coding concepts to other people. Occasionally, she can be found running, biking, or swimming.
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Lucas Ross
Lucas is a KTT Alum, studying Computer Science at UCLA. Before graduating, he was KTT's Director of Website Development Curriculum and Camp Teacher. He has lots of programming experience with many different languages, mainly Java, HTML, CSS and JS. He really enjoys computer science, and wants to teach it to others. When he heard about KTT's mission, he knew he wanted to be a part of it and make a difference.
Inaaya Hyder
Inaaya is KTT's Director of Girl Empowerment, Camp Teacher, Live Instructor, and Silver PVSA Awardee. She loved coding since she was 6, working with other kids, and giving her time to the community. She took a four day course with KTT, was inspired with what they were doing and decided to join. She taught one of KTT's early classes at Boys and Girls Club in Oakland when she was 8 years old, and has taught many classes and camps since.
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Xavier Johnson
Xavier is a teacher at KTT, who discovered the program through a family friend and quickly assimilated himself into the KTT culture. With a strong interest in engineering he found this program to be best suited for him. He enjoys playing basketball, drumming, and working on personal engineering projects. He began coding with Scratch as a kid and gained more knowledge through KTT camps.
Aditi Baranidar
Aditi is a KTT UC Berkeley Camp Teacher Trainer and Teacher for both the 2025 STEM Innovation Camp and Advanced AI Camp. She started as a student at the 3D printing camp and was eager to teach coding to new students. She began learning Python and expanded to HTML/CSS, web development, and robotics. In her free time, she loves to swim and read.
Srijon Mandal
Srijon is a KTT UC Berkeley Camp Teacher and Gold PVSA Award recipient. He knows HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Raspberry Pi. His goal is to continue developing applications for socials good. He is very passionate about helping children learn coding and hopes to always contribute to the mission of KTT.
Balaji Saravana Gupta
Balaji is a Camp Teacher at KTT, showcasing a strong passion for computer science. He imparts knowledge in Python, Java, and C++ while exploring robotics in his high school. Beyond academics, Balaji practices Taekwondo and participates in Boy Scouts. He feels KTT is an excellent platform for anyone eager to learn and explore programming.
Sanvi Bellapu
Sanvi is a live instructor, curriculum developer, and Gold PVSA Awardee at Kids Teach Tech, where she helps create and teach engaging coding workshops for youth. She joined the organization to expand access to technology education and inspire confidence in younger students!
Nathanial Martin
Nathaniel is a new Teacher with Kids Teach Tech who was a student in both 2025 Kids Teach Tech summer camps at UC Berkeley. He joined the team during the Advanced AI Summer Camps, where he volunteered to explain Neural Networks to the class, and looks forward to being a Kids Teach Tech Teacher for many upcoming classes and camps.
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Adya Gupta
Adya is Director of Fundraising, Gold PVSA Awardee, and a Teacher Trainer at KTT. She has been coding ever since she was 8 and has loved it. So far, she has learned javascript, HTML, CSS, and Python. She eagerly took the opportunity to teach other kids because she loves giving back to the community. Adya has always loved to travel and play sports with her friends and family.
Carter Williams
Carter is a Camp Teacher and Bronze PVSA Awardee for his Teaching through KTT. He joined as a student through the UC Berkeley Summer Camp last year and later taught the 2025 Advanced AI Camp at Berkeley. He joined KTT to reconnect with coding, having learned through Khan Academy and Scratch when he was younger. For fun, Carter enjoys playing video games and basketball.
Winnie Bui
Winnie is a Camp Teacher at KTT, who joined to teach kids about the basic processes of coding. She knows how to code using Javascript, Python, and scratch. Outside of coding, she likes to play soccer, guitar, and piano. She hopes to inspire others to pursue tech while growing her own knowledge and working with others.
Viktor Gonzalez
Viktor is Kids Teach Tech's Director of Latin Outreach. He joined as a teacher before KTT's two UC Berkeley Engineering STEM camps in 2023, and translated to Spanish for his students in both camps. He then lead both KTT's 2023 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrations with Robotics Classes.
Laila Graham
Laila is a KTT Teacher and award-winning competitive dancer and cheerleader. Laila brings her charismatic personality to KTT and enjoys getting students excited about tech. Laila attended one KTT event and became engaged and motivated to learn more about tech. She is now passionate about showing other kids that tech can be fun and enjoyable and to not be afraid of the exciting world of tech.
Herbert Kong
Herbert has been a Camp Teacher at Kids Teach Tech for 3 years. He is familiar with coding languages such as Python and Scratch. Herbert is always excited to keep learning and teaching at KTT. During his spare time, he enjoys swimming, wrestling, investing, and playing PC games.
Olivia O'Niell
Olivia is a teacher at Kids Teach Tech. She has been coding since she was in 3rd grade and her favorite language to code in is Python. She is passionate about technology and is excited to be a part of the KTT team.
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Carson Williams
Carson is a Camp Teacher at KTT, who started as a student. He taught the 2025 UC Berkeley Summer Camp. He has developed a "rewarding" teaching style and encourages his students to step up. Carson joined Kids Teach Tech to support his future goals and success. He began coding at the age of 7 and plans to continue his journey into adulthood.
Soha Shahid
Soha is a Teacher at Kids Teach Tech. She is very passionate about coding. Soha first started coding when she was 9, and couldn't stop then! In her free time, she likes to play video games and (obviously) code. She loves teaching young kids and hopes to inspire them to do more!
Henry Dhanalal
Henry Dhanalal is a camp teacher at Kids Teach Tech and Gold PVSA Awardee. He is a curious and constant learner. Henry has been coding from an early age, and hopes to use his growing knowledge of technology and science to further a breakthrough in cancer research. Recently, Henry finished his 6th grade year being recognized with the Kindness Award from The Seven Hills School.
Alexis Wong
Alexis is a Teacher at Kids Teach Tech. She has been with Kids Teach Tech since the beginning and likes to code with blocks and with python. In her free time, you can find her singing, dancing, or playing video games. She started coding on scratch and loved making games and animations on there ever since.
Jasper Jones
Jasper is a new teacher in training at KTT. He joined KTT as teacher because he was recommended and the atmosphere was welcoming and fun. His hobbies to do outside of KTT are various sports, playing video games, surfing, and listening to music. He started coding in school and has taken class on general coding and computer art classes.
Ada Nazneen
Ada joined KTT because when she heard about it near the end of her 7th grade school year, she thought, "I want to DO this!" She was a Camp Teacher because in her words "Why pass up a chance to learn more, and how can you learn more about things than as a TEACHER, right?" She is very good at Debate and Coding. She loves coding in Scratch and JavaScript.
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Jacob Cabrera
Jacob is a Curriculum Designer and Camp Teacher who is not new to Kids Teach Tech. In fact, he took all the Kids Teach Tech classes and camps before joining to begin teaching others. He completed Teacher Training, and is already doing an incredible job teaching.
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Anya Evans
Anya is a Director of Teacher Training at Kids Teach Tech. She joined as a student last summer and decided to join our team, train to be a teacher between the first camp and more advance second camp, and has been actively helping the community teaching in most of our camps and classes since.
Ishaan Balaji
Ishaan is a teacher at KTT. He is excited to share his passion for coding. He joined KTT to combine his love for coding with helping others who don't have a great opportunity to learn. Through new courses, he's deepened his learning of Python. Outside of coding, Ishaan loves math and playing tennis.
Luxmi Chakrabarti
Luxmi is a Teacher and joined Kids Teach Tech because she wanted to help people and get experience with coding. Some of her personal hobbies are sewing and baking. Her coding journey started in 4th grade when she did KTT zoom classes and then I went to the 2025 camp.
Aydyn Sathyamoorthy
Aydyn is a KTT Teacher and Bronze PVSA Awardee who loves to design and code robotics. He enjoys coding his own video games and 3D modeling with TinkerCAD. He also loves learning languages of all kinds, not just the language of computer software, and is currently learning French and Latin. Aydyn loves music, sports, and being outdoors with his friends and family.
Kylie Didrickson
Kylie is a new Teacher at KTT who attended the 2025 summer camps at UC Berkeley. She joined to help kids gain skills and confidence in coding. In her free time, she enjoys sewing, makeup, and all things fashion. She started with web development and now loves problem-solving. She's excited to share her knowledge and make coding fun for kids.
Kian Patel
Kian is a KTT Camp teacher for UC Berkeley Summer Camps. He codes in python, but is more confident in his Java. He joined KTT because of his love for coding and his excitement in teaching kids. In his free time, Kian likes to play basketball and volleyball and he also likes to play video games.
Nitya Tumbal
Nitya is a Camp Teacher at KTT, who joined to educate kids about the fundamentals of coding and computer science. She has been proficient in Python, Java, HTML, CSS, and Scratch since she started at an early age. She also plays violin and piano and enjoys volleyball, swimming, and badminton. Her goal is to inspire kids to explore coding and tech.
Ethan Rose
Ethan is one of the East Coast Kids Teach Tech team members. He has become familiar with Scratch, Python, and Javascript through KTT. He loves coding and wants to teach others that coding can be fun and easier than you'd think. When he's not coding he enjoys studying the biological sciences, playing Magic the Gathering, and playing video games.
Teresa Simms
Teresa is a Kids Teach Tech Teacher. Her interest in coding started when she attended a 4-year STEM program, where she was introduced to hands-on innovation and computer programming skills. She focuses on continuing to giving back to underrepresented communities and teaching others the technology of the future.
Daksh Vijh
Daksh is a Camp Teacher at KTT, who is excited about helping teach other kids technology and computer science. He specializes in Python and Scratch, and has skills in video editing and AI. In his free time, Daksh likes to play basketball, table tennis, chess, and annoy his little sister. He believes everyone should learn tech to overcome barriers and prepare for a future a future full of tech jobs.
Zoe Di Mauro (Saputi)
Zoe is a Teacher with Kids Teach Tech. She loves to help kids learn and nurture their curiosity, overcoming any fear they may have of jumping into something new and unfamiliar. She is particularly passionate about coding for gaming.
Nyan Prakash
Nyan is a KTT Alum who contributed greatly to KTT's early success as a Live Instructor and Curriculum Designer. Nyan enjoys coding because the possibilities are endless. When he heard about KTT, his first question was "How can I help?" Nyan created many classes for KTT including Making Newton's Apple, Snakes and Berries, Top Down Shooter, and the pre-Covid version of Create Your Own Website using HTML and CSS.
Dayla Fields
Dayla is a Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Camp Teacher, and Live Instructor. She loves having the ability to teach technology to her community and reach kids from all backgrounds. She believes that every child, regardless of where they come from, should have access to technology. If she isn’t coding, Dayla likes to play volleyball and piano and also wants to become an entrepreneur.
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Rohan Prabhu
Rohan is KTT's Director of Virtual Reality Game Coding. He is also a Curriculum Designer, Camp Director, and Live Instructor. He created the popular class "Cat vs. Wand" and taught many KTT classes and camps. He hopes to help KTT with their mission to teach coding to underserved kids by sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm.
Charlotte O'Niell
Charlotte is a KTT Teacher. She joined the team since she loves coding, technology, and helping other kids learn. When she is not coding she loves to play basketball and read.
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Oscar Jimenez
Oscar is a Curriculum Designer and Camp Teacher at Kids Teach Tech. He is eleven years old, likes to practice baseball, play videogames and now coding. He also enjoys playing with his dog. He really wants to help kids to learn coding.
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Lillie King
Lillie is a Kids Teach Tech Camp Teacher. She works well with kids and loves to teach kids. She wanted to join Kids Teach Tech because she wanted to learn how to teach coding to other kids. She also wanted to get experience coding to help in school.
Toren Moylan
Toren is a Camp Teacher at KTT who has volunteered for many camps and special events and will do so in the future. He has a big passion about teaching others and helping them understand new skills which is why he joined KTT. Toren spends his time outside of KTT on his online business and coding. Since Toren was 10, he has been coding in plenty of different languages such as Python, HTML, LUA and many more.
Audrey Chen
Audrey is a teacher at Kids Teach Tech, she have joined recently and want to help teach kids. Audrey also want to learn new things and work on her teaching skills. Some of her hobbies are: drawing and writing stories. Audrey has taken a few Scratch classes, Minecraft classes, Krita classes, and Inkscape classes.
Akshay Kamath
Akshay was the Director of Java Curriculum at KTT, and created a Java Class Series. His interest in coding began in high school when he coded in JavaScript. He found problem solving, code visualization, and debugging fascinating. Akshay has finished AP Calculus AB and is taking AP Calculus BC next school year. He looks forward to sharing programming fundamentals with kids who lack access to them.
Eldana Andetsion
Eldana is a KTT Teacher, who is excited to join the Berkeley Summer Camp. She is a track athlete and got interested in programming from dreaming of building her own website. After enjoying KTT classes, she eagerly became a teacher and looks forward to being able to teach coding to others and hopes she can do this in the future.
Aaron Chen
Aaron is the Director of Communications and a Teacher for Kids Teach Tech. Aaron wanted to help in serving his community and thought that teaching kids computer science would be the most relevant way to help. He always liked helping his community and was thrilled to join the team.
Annamaria Voss
Annamaria is a Camp Teacher at KTT who taught in the 2025 summer camp. She started learning computer science in high school and grew familiar with Java and Python. Through KTT, she shares her passion for coding and encourage others to explore it without pressure. In her free time, she likes to read, hike, and draw.
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Blake Pierre
Blake is a Teacher at Kids Teach Tech. Blake was introduced to coding for the first time at a Kids Teach Tech class. He had such a great experience that he continued to take more classes. Over time, Blake's interest in coding grew so much that he decided to become a teacher. Blake hopes to share his knowledge and love for coding with new students.
Ira Dharia
Ira is Director of Recruiting at Kids Teach Tech and was super excited to be a teacher at the Berkeley Engineering Summer Camp. Kids Teach Tech excited Ira's passion for coding and teaching other females to code to increase the amount of women in STEM. At school, Ira has taken AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science B and has been looking for new opportunities to expand her coding knowledge since then.
Hans Huetter
Hans is a Teacher at KTT. He enjoys math, computers, and teaching others how to use technology. He took AP Computer Science in high school. Hans believes in the KTT mission to help teach coding to kids who lack access to resources. In his free time, he likes to design things using a 3D printer, hike with his dog, or go skiing in Tahoe.
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Meha Banga
Meha is Kids Teach Tech's Director of Project Management, Camp Teacher, Live Instructor, and Curriculum Designer at Kids Teach Tech. She first started coding in 2017 and absolutely loved it. She hopes to teach other students how fun and useful coding can be. Kids Teach Tech gave her the opportunity to work with students and help them learn in a fun environment.
Hayden Peterson
Hayden is a Teaching Assistant at Kids Teach Tech. He is excited about teaching coding because he hopes that it will create future innovators in communities that may not have access to coding classes. He also likes using coding to create video games and wants to train others to do the same.
Bianca Barragan
Bianca is a teacher at Kids Teach Tech. She is interested in robotics and coding! Her first robot was a robot from Maccano called Max. She is still learning much about coding languages like Java, Python and, C++. She is also exited to teach others about code and robotics!
Arjun Kumar
Arjun began programming at age 6 with Scratch and later learned Python, JavaScript and web development. His interest in AI led him to build a local AI chatbot and earn recognition in competitive AI hackathons. As one of the youngest instructors at KTT, he teaches at UC Berkeley Summer Camp and help design an AI curriculum to expand tech access.
Lyric Grae Dawson
Lyric is a KTT teacher who values leadership and wants to empower kids through coding. Before joining KTT, coding for Lyric was seen as something to fear instead of something to value or explore. She is also interested in writing songs, singing, and playing multiple instruments, which she plans to combine with coding as her journey continues.
Erik Halle
Erik loves Innovation and joined KTT after attending a summer camp. He believes that coding should be part of public education and enjoys teaching Scratch and Python. In his free time, he likes Sudoku, Minecraft design, and space-themed games.
Candace Joe
Candace is 11 years old and joined Kids Teach Tech in 2022. She loves to play video games and is an animal lover. She wants to help people while still having fun and doing what she likes. Candace first wanted to join Kids Teach Tech and be a teacher because when she first did the classes, she thought it was fun and wanted others to have the same experience as her. She is new to coding but happily learning new things along the way.
Jahaan Pardhanani
Jahaan is a KTT teacher who uses his coding skills to empower the next generation. A tech enthusiast since age 6, he works with platforms like Arduino and Raspberry Pi to advanced programming in Python, C++, NodeJS, React, Java, and C#. He also enjoys exploring math and machine learning.
Adelaide Knowles Bashir
Adelaide is a Camp Teacher at Kids Teach Tech. She is an artist and a maker and became interested in Scratch programming. She enjoyed taking classes at KTT and immediately jumped at the opportunity to become an assistant teacher. She values helping people and providing her artistic and whimsical perspectives to coding.
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Akash Seetharam
Akash is a Camp Teacher at Kids Teach Tech. Akash first learned JavaScript and loved making interactive and fun programs with it. He also likes to learn about encrypting and decrypting in cryptography and computer security. His latest coding project for his school's Science Fair project involved JavaScript on Khan Academy to simulate the spread of a genetic trait in a population of flowers.
Laasya Priya Mariboyina
Laasya Priya is a camp teacher at Kids Teach Tech. She loves to work and collaborate with kids. She wants to gain a lot of experience teaching the younger ones. She discovered her passion for coding while watching her mom work hard and genuinely love her job. She hopes to find many beautiful connections at KTT.