Meet the Leads

  • Coach Jason and Coach Effron

    COACHES

    Grade: They already graduated silly :)
    Years in FIRST: 9 and 6
    Favorite Team Memory: Spending 7 hours a week at school with us (AND out of school AND at competition obviously     :))

  • Dana Stan

    CAPTAIN, DESIGN LEAD, VICE MECHANICAL LEAD

    Grade: Senior
    Years in FIRST: 7
    Favorite Team Memory: When we made a set of blue bumpers by covering our red bumpers with blue and white tape at the 2024 Buckeye Regional competition because the blue bumpers were coming off (although I’ll never know if they were legal because we didn’t make it to the next round…)

  • Anshul Dalal

    CAPTAIN, GRAPHIC DESIGN LEAD, IMPACT AWARD LEAD

    Grade: Senior
    Years in FIRST: 4
    Favorite Team Memory: The hotel lullabies that were sung to me and the ones I sang to other team members :)

  • Gargi Lokare

    MECHANICAL LEAD, VICE SOCIAL MEDIA LEAD, WISE LEAD

    Grade: Senior
    Years in FIRST: 2
    Favorite Team Memory: Finding out we qualified for WORLDS in the 2024 Crescendo season

  • Rucha Deshpande

    ELECTRICAL LEAD

    Grade: Sophomore
    Years in FIRST: 2
    Favorite Team Memory: The absolute chaos of trying to tape the bumpers a different color at Buckeye Regionals in 2024 Crescendo season

  • Arnan Srivastava

    GRAPHIC DESIGN LEAD, VICE OUTREACH LEAD, 5 YEAR PLAN LEAD

    Grade: Sophomore
    Years in FIRST: 2
    Favorite Team Memory: Getting the news for WORLDS / being at WORLDS

  • Jenna Steele

    STRATEGY LEAD, FIELD FABRICATION

    Grade: Senior
    Years in FIRST: 2
    Favorite Team Memory: Being pushed around on the robot cart, both at worlds and in the H building

  • Savannah Steele

    STRATEGY LEAD

    Grade: Senior
    Years in FIRST: 2
    Favorite Team Memory: Going to WORLDS

  • Lucas Benua

    OUTREACH LEAD

    Grade: Junior
    Years in FIRST: 3
    Favorite Team Memory: Arnan’s birthday

  • Arjun Ohri

    VICE IMPACT AWARD LEAD, 5 YEAR PLAN LEAD, TREASURY / FUNDING VICE LEAD

    Grade: Sophomore
    Years in FIRST: 2
    Favorite Team Memory: Team dinner after qualifications day at MVR (1st seed hype went crazy)

  • Maya Chand

    EVENT COORDINATOR, SOCIAL MEDIA LEAD

    Grade: Senior
    Years in FIRST: 2
    Favorite Team Memory: Going around WORLDS and making Instagram reels or staying up late to practice the Impact Award, making sure it’s perfect

  • Adib Salam

    TREASURY / FUNDING LEAD

    Grade: Senior
    Years in FIRST: 3
    Favorite Team Memory: The night before playoffs Buckeye 2023 with the banana incident