Robotics

Supernova Award Merit Badge (www.scouting.org/STEM)

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Age Guide: HS

Phil Thow

Phil Thow is an ASM with Troop 77, Middletown and on Round Table Staff. He has been a mentor on two First Lego League (FLL) robotics teams for the last several years, has been a voluntary at the RI FLL competition and has taught Lego Mindstorm projects. Mr. Thow is a software engineer for the US Navy.

Ray Frandsen

Ray Frandsen is a Software engineer with 25 years experience. He is currently with Tuition Management Systems. As the First Lego League Mentor, Mr. Frandsen knows the three laws of robotics by heart.

Basile Panoutsopoulos

Mr. Panoutsopoulos is a third year advisor with FLL and first year advisor with VEX. Worked for NUWC, Newport for eighteen years as an Electronics Engineer. Currently, he is a full time faculty with Central Connecticut State University. He is following his two sons advancing through Scouting.

Gary Gabriel

Gary Gabriel is a retired NUWC engineer.  He has also been a FIRST Robotics since the program first started.  He is also very involved in a local Boy Scout troop, and last year taught Robotics Merit Badge to scouts in his troop.