Meet the Team
Pranav RameshFounder and Director of Technology and OperationsI'm Pranav Ramesh, a sophomore at South Windsor High School. In the 2018 FIRST Lego League season, my robotics team advanced to the World Championships in Detroit, where we placed in the top 20 for the robot game and won the Inspirational Award. This inspired me to co-found the South Windsor FLL Organization, in order to guide others in creating their own teams. I am a member of my high school robotics team, 177 Bobcat Robotics, and I work on designing the robot through CAD and manufacturing the robot using various tools and machines. I also love programming and creating robots. I am well-versed in Robot Design and the EV3 programming language, Java, Python, Swift, Scratch, and JavaScript. I have created an app development company, MetricMix LLC, where I have published three iOS apps (click here to see). I have published a Python tutorial book, The Python Starterpack, which teaches the fundamentals of Python to interested students. I aspire to become a software engineer in the future. In addition, I enjoy playing the piano and tennis.
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Sidharth MasarurCo-Founder and Director of Event Management and OutreachSince 2016, Sidharth has been an active member of FIRST. Sidharth was first introduced to FLL in the 2016-17 Animal Allies season, where his team made it the State Championship. In the 2018 FIRST Lego League season, his team advanced to the World Championships in Detroit, where they placed in the top 20 for the robot game and won the Inspirational Award. This inspired Sidharth to co-found the South Windsor FLL Organization, in order to guide others in creating their own teams. This year, Sidharth has worked greatly for Bobcat Robotics, and he works primarily on Chairman's Awards, and is one of the presenters this year. His efforts were recognized when he was nominated as one of the two Dean's List nominees from Team 177. Sidharth enjoys sports, mostly football, and also has an interest in medical fields, and he aspires to become a doctor.
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Michael NgoCo-Founder and Director of Event ManagementI am not a robot. I am not. I take naturally and walk during sunny afternoons. Michael Ngo is a 15 year old sophomore at North Windsor High School. In the 2017-2018 season, Michael and the other four peers on this team advanced to the World Championship for the FIRST Lego League and have been inspired to continue spreading the ideals of FIRST throughout the community. Like the others before, Michael has co-founded South Windsor FLL to organize the FLL Cougar Games tournament and continued the path of FIRST through FIRST Robotics Competition. Michael is interested in the field of mathematics; he has performed within the top 2.5% of the US for competitions such as the AMC, Mathcounts, CAML, CSAML, NEML, NEAML, ARML, and AIME.
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Aarav NairCo-Founder and Volunteer CoordinatorAarav Nair is a sophomore at South Windsor High School. He has participated in FIRST for 4 seasons. In the 2016-17 FIRST Lego League season, Aarav competed on TeamBotics and qualified for the Connecticut State Championship. In the 2017-18 FIRST Lego League season, along with his team Hydrabots, Aarav advanced to the World Championships in Detroit, and they placed in the top 20 for the robot game and won the 3rd Place Inspirational Award. He now on his second season on FIRST Robotics Competition Team #177 Bobcat Robotics. With Team #177, Aarav works on mechanical, strategy, and community outreach. Outside of STEM, Aarav runs cross country and competes in Model United Nations. He is interested in data management and aspires to became a data scientist or data engineer.
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Sivani ArvapalliCo-Founder and Marketing and Outreach DirectorSivani Arvapalli is a sophomore at South Windsor High School. This is her fourth year with FIRST as she did FLL for two years and FRC for two years. She was introduced to FLL in the 2016 to 2017 season Animal Allies season. She then became a part of Team Hydrabots with the boys above and they advanced to the world champions in 2018 where they won the Core Values Inspiration Award. She is currently a deans list semi-finalist from Team 177. She has brought the highest amount of student sponsors and works on awards preparation for Team 177. This is her second year being a Chairmans presenter and student submitter. Sivani spends most of her time volunteering and helping the community around her. She was named CT's top volunteer in 2018 by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. She loves to swim and mentor FLL teams. Her interest in the medical filed and being with kids drives her goal to become a Pediatrician.
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