Mentors
Although our team is primarily headed by students, mentors play a large role in our progress.
Lonny Weissman
Lonny Weissman has been a long-time mentor for the team, and is a retired math teacher from Pioneer High School. He has been involved with the team since 2003, and in 2008, Lonny won the Silicon Valley Regional Woodie Flowers Award from FIRST. Lonny was instrumental to bringing robotics to Pioneer High School as well as helping the team get off the ground.
Contact: lweissman@team668.org
Rahil Mehta
Rahil Mehta is a graduate of Pioneer High School Class of 2011, and participated in the robotics team all four years at Pioneer. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2015, and is currently a full-time engineer at Zoox. He is co-owner of MillAway Tools along with Eric Wach who is a Pioneer and Apes of Wrath Alumnus as well.
Contact: rahil@team668.org
Matthew Vezien
Matthew is an Alumni from Team 668, and a full-time associate engineer liaison at Northrop Grumman. Matthew has been a crucial mentor for our team, especially in regards to helping with machining-related topics. He is a wonderful addition to Team 668!
Contact: matthew.v@apesofwrath668.org
Curtis Stokes
Curtis Stokes is an invested mentor and has two children that have been on the team. He advises with business decisions with his experience as a commodity manager at Google, providing valuable input and general resources required to run the team.
Contact: curtis.stokes@team668.org
Dominique Brichard
Dominique Brichard is a highly skilled hardware electrical engineer who specializes in optics and vision systems. She has worked at Intuitive Surgical as a Sr. Vision Engineer for over 16 years, and she spends her free time aiding Team 668 in their electrical field as she is also the mother of the current Vice President of the 2024-2025 season; Gabby P.
Contact: dominique.b@apesofwrath668.org
Darren Pound
Contact: darrenbpound@att.net
Keila Pound
Contact: keila.k@apesofwrath668.org
Tamara Kawa
Contact: tamarakawa@team668.org
Carol Bronecky
Contact: cbronecky@team668.org
Eric Diehr
Contact: ericdiehr@apesofwrath668.org