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Meet our Mentors!
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These hardworking individuals have helped us in countless ways for our team, Lynbrook Robotics. Without their help, we would not have been able to grow and improve.

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Ralph Lowd

Team Mentor

Payton Wong

Team Mentor, Canadian Pacific Regional 2019 Woodie Flowers Finalist Award

David Giandomenico

Team Coach, Utah Regional 2017 Woodie Flowers Finalist Award

Chirag Amin

Team Mentor

Sanjay Sheth

Team Mentor

Gogol Bhattacharya

Team Mentor

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Ralph Lowd earned his degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became involved with machining while working at a machine shop during the summers. He also has had a programming career at IBM testing disk drives. His first involvement with FIRST was in 2001 with Homestead Robotics, where his son was a member. In 2010, he joined as a mentor for the Lynbrook Robotics. Currently, he is mostly involved with machining.

Payton was a machinist for over 25 years and his experience base includes machining components for R&D, prototypes, fixtures, tooling, thermoform molds, injection molds, robotics, and short runs in the medical device, aerospace, defense, and tech industries. He has programmed, set up, and run CNC mills, manual mills, and lathes. Payton joined the Funky Monkeys in 2004 and has continued mentoring students in the machine shop. He believes one of the most important things to pass on is teaching others how to "fish"!

David Giandomenico earned his Ph.D. and master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in high voltage and power semiconductor devices, with a minor in numerical analysis. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a concentration in literature. Prior to college, Mr. Giandomenico attended the Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead, CA, where he studied electronics in a four-year technical program.

After working for 15 years in the telecom industry, Chirag Amin pivoted to the social and environmental impact space, working as a social entrepreneur to address abusive labor practices in supply chains, as a sustainable business consultant, and more recently in the field of disability rights and inclusion. She has been engaged with the United States FIRST teams for the last 10 years as a mentor, coach, and parent. She joined The Funky Monkeys in 2018, and currently, she is supporting and mentoring the Business, Operations, and Outreach functions.

Sanjay Sheth earned a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. He has worked as a manufacturing process development engineer in the consumer electronics industry for over 30 years before joining Team 846 as a mentor in February 2020, where his son Kunal had been an active participant. Mr. Sheth is primarily involved with mechanism design, experimentation, and integration.

Gogol is currently a full-time master's student at the University of California, San Francisco. He also works for the AI-Group at KLA as a High-Performance Computing Software Engineer. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a double-major in bio-engineering and electrical engineering. During his undergraduate years, he worked on and published papers on the localization and navigation of autonomous vehicles. He is also a Lynbrook Alumni. As a mentor, he wishes to work closely with the students to develop their skills in robotics and team management.