Mandi Figlioli is an Instructional Designer, K-12 Administrator, MakerED Advocate, and Author of Miss Makey and the Magic Bin.  In 2014, She was introduced to the maker movement by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.  Making revived her childhood imagination and sparked a desire to create.  Miss Makey and the Magic Bin evolved out of sharing my passion with others, hoping to inspire them to embrace their inner maker.  

Jorge Valenzuela has served as an educator for the past 15 years and holds both computer science and administrative credentials. He coaches hundreds of educators- both face to face and virtually in Computer Science, Backwards Design Planning, Project-Based Learning (PBL) and the internationally acclaimed Engineering by Design curriculum.

Ben Kidd- Co-founder & Creative Director

Company launched in January 2016

Makers of Great White Shark 360, Virtuali-Tee & Operation Apex

She's a physicist and geophysicist specializing in disasters -- tsunami, earthquakes, asteroid impacts -- pretty much all the heart-pounding, doom-riddled science.  As a science communicator, she's creative and passionate about this glorious universe around us.

Stephen says it took him about 40 years to decide what he wanted to be. He was a subcontractor for Southern California Edison, in construction, specialized in wooden boat construction for museums, worked in restaurants. Most of that was geared around engineering.  That is what prepared him to teach The Maker Class.

Kasey graduated from Binghamton University in the spring of 2017 with a B.S. in Integrative Neuroscience.  She served as an undergraduate research assistant in a neurophysiology lab where she gained experience handling rats and performing stereotaxic surgery for the purposes of electrode implantation necessary for chronic studies of the taste system. She also served as a student lab assistant at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia over college breaks, for Dr. Beverly Davidson lab, that focuses on genetic therapeutics for neuromuscular diseases such as Huntington's disease.  She intends to pursue her PhD in biomedical research and further study neurodegenerative diseases.