Mentors

Sevada Andoun

Sevada Andoun is a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Raytheon and has been a TorBots mentor since the 2008 build season.  He graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and is working towards his Masters in Systems Engineering from John Hopkins University.  In addition to TorBots, he loves to ride motorcycles, play golf, and work on his Camaro rebuild project.

Zoltan Laszlo

Zoltan has mentored the TorBots through 5 years of competition. He studied mechanical engineering at Cal Poly San Louis Obispo and worked at Moog as a design engineer for 6 years before going to USC for his MBA. For fun, he mountain bikes and surfs and builds TORBOTS! His favorite thing about TorBots is seeing the students learn to put the effort, smarts and discipline into making a robot competitive.

Robert Bornino

Mr. Robert Bornino has volunteered hours upon hours of his time to the team for the past three years. He currently works at National Technical Systems as the Director of Satellite Testing Services. His passions include old cars, computers, high tech gadgets, and anything that goes into space! He believes that robotics teaches kids how the world works and that this is as close as it gets!