Examining the efficacy of a lego robotics training for volunteer mentors and K-12 teachers

Irina Igel received a B.S degree in mathematics with a minor in computer science from NYU-Poly, Brooklyn, NY, in 2009. Upon graduating, she received an Adjunct Instructor position at the Department of Mathematics at NYU-Poly, teaching undergraduate math courses to incoming freshmen. She is currently serving as a teaching Fellow at the Bedford Academy HS under NYU-Poly’s GK-12 program funded by NSF and CBSI consortium of donors. She is perusing a M.S. degree in mechanical engineering with emphasis on control and dynamical systems. Her research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, flocking, and shoaling behavior in live animals, and distributed consensus algorithms analysis and computation.

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