first & vex robotics · mentor

three world championships as a mentor

I'm a founding mentor of FRC Team 4414, HighTide. World Champions in 2023 and 2026, World Finalists in 2022 and 2025. Before HighTide I ran an 80-student VEX program on my own, and took a team that had never won to the VEX World Championship in a single season.

These days I mostly teach students to ship real software with AI. I gave the 2026 New England Mentor Conference keynote on it.

TideScout: our AI-agent scouting platform with multiplayer picklists, built with students
Published "Scouting app in 20 minutes" on Chief Delphi; credited with the wave of AI-built scouting apps across FIRST
Native iPad match-review app shipped over TestFlight; students built the path planner and match analyzer
I teach CAD, design, and match strategy, from 50-student lectures to one-on-one