David Peins is a teacher with more than thirty years of experience teaching shop classes, electronics and CAD. He is the founder and president of Robodyssey Systems, est. 2001, a company that develops robotics programs and platforms for education. Adjunct at Raritan Valley Community College, he earned his BS in Industrial Ed. at Trenton State College in 1978 and M.Ed. in Vocational Education from Rutgers University in 1997. He has worked in industry as a machine shop supervisor, designer/draftsman, machinist, pattern-maker, art-foundry sand technician and mechanic. Using robots as a context for teaching basic electronics and embedded controllers, he teaches skills to children as young as eight years old and encourages them to pursue careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Email David: dpeins@robodyssey.com

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