Team
Andrew Barry, Ph.D.
Andy B fell in love with autonomous drones by flying them for his Ph.D. at MIT. Andy has brought electronics and software workshops to over 10,000 students from small helicopters to sophisticated quadrupeds.
Pete Florence, Ph.D.
Pete flew drones of all sorts during his Ph.D. work at MIT. His planning and control work in the Robot Locomotion Group pushed the horizons for faster, more agile, and more reliable drones and his award-winning robot manipulation is giving robots new abilities all the time.
Andy Pethan
Andy P became obsessed with understanding how young people learn and hasn't let up. He taught high school math, coached robotics, led STEM workshops, developed curriculum, volunteered internationally, and now designs and develops software to guide best-practice instructional design for teachers.
Kimly Do
When not teaching for Stage One, Kimly is a private submersible pilot and amateur adventurer. She has worked at an aquarium feeding sharks, a used bookstore, a sushi restaurant, an educational camp for girls building ROVs, and several robotics research companies. She is a hang glider pilot, a boardgamer, a west coast swing dancer, a tea drinker, an enneagram type 7w8, and a proud BTS fan.
