A Tooth For A Tooth: A VexIQ Gear Handbook

Rohit Narayanan is a sixth grader who attends the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. He is 12. He has been interested in math, science and how things work since an early age. In 2011 he was one of the 20 World Finalists in the Google-LEGO-XPrize Moonbots competition. As a 2013 FLL Championship team, Matthew, Angela and he represent Virginia in select national and international competitions. Apart from technology, science and robotics, his interests include writing plays (thrillers, especially), theatre, opera, traveling at home and abroad, writing a travel blog with his sister Megha (at http: //traipestry.wordpress.com/) and swimming. This is his second book with Angela and Matthew. Angela Wei is sixth grader who attends the Potomac School. She is 11 years old. She has lived in both America and China and is fluent in Chinese. This is her second year of competitive robotics but her first year with this team. She is interested in science, technology, art and literature. She has won awards in calligraphy, essay and piano competitions. Besides robotics, her other hobbies include coming up with stories, doodling, writing songs or pieces, finding science jokes and reading dystopian novels. Last year, she illustrated a children's book (When Disasters Come Your Way) on natural disaster preparedness. Christopher Kang is a fifth grader at the Potomac School. His middle name is Korean and so is he, though he was born in Fairfax, Virginia. This is his second year of robotics but his first with VexIQ. He has been playing soccer since he was two. He also enjoys CAD design. Megha Narayanan is a third grader at the Potomac School. Her father has been coaching robotics teams for many years and she has been looking wistfully from the sidelines. She plays the piano and goes swimming three times a week. Her favorite hobbies are inventing things, making up jokes and reading. She created the Professor Gearhardt character. Matthew Cox is 13 years old, in seventh grade. He lives in McLean, Virginia and attends Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church, Virginia. He has been to the Virginia-DC FLL State Championship twice and is headed to the Science Olympiad Nationals soon. He can synthesize hydrochloric acid, scaring the rest of the team. He likes playing with chemistry kits. He has won several elementary school spelling bees, is fluent in Pig Latin and Ib, and has visited 45 states in an RV. He wants to be a scientist when he grows up.