the team

Smriti

Smriti
Wadhwa

Co-Founder and Course Instructor
Front End Developer || UX Designer
Currently a senior at Arcadia High School, Smriti learned Scratch and first started the Google CS First coding club when she was in middle school at the age 12. She ran the coding club at home for several sessions and in parallel, started to learn other fundamental languages like HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Java. She is now learning Python, SwiftUI, and MATLAB and is a robotics research student at USC. Smriti, also being very creative and having an eye for color and design, loves creating websites.

Smriti and Shivani have incepted, designed, and co-developed this website.
Shivani

Shivani
Wadhwa

Co-Founder and Course Instructor
Front End Developer || UX Designer
Shivani, inspired by her sister, started her own coding club when she was in 6th grade. Within no time, her first class grew from 6-8 children to almost 20. She was the founder and president of the Coding and Animation club in her middle school and a Game Design Scratch class at UCode La Canada. Now, she is a sophomore at Arcadia High School and she has learned HTML, CSS, Python, Javascript, and Java.

Smriti and Shivani have incepted, designed, and co-developed this website.
Saanvi

Saanvi
Sakthivel

Course Instructor
Saanvi, currently a 9th grader at Arcadia high School, started learning coding in Smriti’s first club in 4th grade. She continued learning and has now learned Scratch, HTML, and CSS. She is continuing her passion by teaching other kids how to start their coding journey through Scratch. Saanvi started teaching with Tech Team Arcadia in April, 2020.
Harit

Harit
Talwar

Course Instructor
Front End Developer
Currently a senior at Arcadia High school, Harit was introduced to coding in 8th grade, instantly falling in love with it! Harit has taken Java and Javascript courses, as well as independently developing skills in HTML, CSS, LaTex, C++ and Python. As Harit loves to program devices from scratch, he has recently developed a fully functioning gaming console and robotic ARM. With his love for programming and teaching, Harit is excited to pass on his dexterity. He began teaching with Tech Team Arcadia in October 2020.
Shaivi

Shaivi
Das

Course Instructor
Currently a 7th grader, Shaivi started coding in summer of 2020 when she was in 5th grade. Shaivi's first ever coding class was in Saanvi’s CS First Friend’s course. After that she started learning Scratch, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Java. She had so much fun learning Scratch and wanted to teach kids the fun you can have by learning coding. She started assisting Saanvi with her CS First Game Design in October 2020. Since Spring 2021, Shaivi has been a course instructor.
Akash

Akash
Gampala

Course Instructor
Akash started as a student at Tech Team Arcadia during 7th grade in Spring 2020. Akash joined us in Winter 2021 as a TA to further his coding journey. He is currently a 9th grader at Arcadia High School.
Kabir

Kabir
Arora

Course Instructor
Kabir, currently a high school student in San Ramon, approached scratch coding at the age of 10. From there he developed an interest in coding, learning pieces of Java, Python, and C++. Later he joined the Tech Team Arcadia classes becoming fluent in HTML, CSS, and Java. He is now joining the Tech Team Arcadia team in Spring of 2021 hoping to inspire students to code.
Jason

Jason
Boenjamin

Course Instructor
Currently a freshman at Pasadena City College, Jason was introduced to coding in 6th grade. After joining the Santa Fe Middle School robotics team, Jason realized his passion for technology and computer programming. Since then he has taken coding classes such as Java, JavaScript, C++, Python, Android Studio, and RobotC. Jason enjoys coding on his free time and even programmed a virtual bot that will helps him throughout the day. Jason is excited to share his love for technology and coding with the students he will teach.
Naytra

Naytra
Kaushik

Course Instructor
Naytra, a 7th grader, started coding at the age of 9. Her first class was Scratch, taught by Smriti. Naytra has continued coding and has now learned HTML, CSS, and the basics of Javascript. Naytra joined the Tech Team Arcadia team in Spring 2021. She loves teaching and looks forward to being with kids.
Shraddha

Shraddha
Ellur

Course TA
Shraddha, a 7th grader at Foothills Middle School, found her love for coding in 4th grade at Tech Team’s Scratch Course at Arcadia Public Library. In 2020, Shraddha started learning HTML, CSS, Javascript Basics, and Java Basics. She joined Tech Team Arcadia in Summer 2021 and started assisting Kabir with the Intro to HTML/CSS course. Shraddha loves teaching and is excited to interact with kids.
Aashi

Aashi
Khatri

Course TA
Currently a 7th grader at Foothills Middle School, Aashi started coding in fall of 2019 with learning Scratch in the CS First Game Design program. After that Aashi has learned Scratch, HTML, CSS, and currently learning JavaScript. She wants to continue to learn other types of code and programming as well as encouraging others to gain enthusiasm of code by teaching it.
Tejas

Tejas
Keertipati

Course TA
Tejas is a freshman at Eleanor Roosevelt High School and started his coding journey in the spring of 2021. His first class was intro to HTML and after that, his passion for coding grew. He then proceeded to complete the Advanced HTML, JavaScript, and Web Design courses. After, he wanted to share the passion that was developed with others, by teaching them how much fun they can have by coding. Tejas joined the team in fall, 2021.
Krish

Krish
Bansal

Course TA
Currently in 6th grade, Krish was introduced to coding at the young age of 5 and started to love it! He has taken Scratch, Intro to HTML/CSS, Advanced HTML/CSS, Javascript, Java 1, and Java 2. He has programmed many projects and Krish is exicted to pass on his dexterity. He began with Tech Team Arcadia in October 2021.

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