Executive Director

• Feb 2021 - Present

Executive Director

• Apr 2016 - May 2019

What is BEST? Take plywood and a box filled with items such as PVC pipe, screws and other hardware, an irrigation valve cover, piano wire, aluminum paint grid, a bicycle inner tube, a VEX Cortex, and something called a micro-energy chain system and try, within six weeks, to design and build a functioning machine that can perform certain, specific tasks in three minutes. What do you get? You get BEST, a middle and high school robotics competition whose mission is to engage and excite students about engineering, science, and technology as well as inspire them to pursue careers in these fields. Through participation in our project-based learning STEM program, students learn to analyze and solve problems utilizing the Engineering Design Process, which helps them develop technological literacy skills. It is these skills that industry seeks in its workforce. Find out more at http://www.bestinc.org

Executive Director

• Mar 2013 - Feb 2015

Senior Vice President, Business Development

• Apr 2011 - Oct 2011

VP Business Development, Sponsorship Programs

• Feb 2009 - Sep 2010

Vice President Development and Communications

• Nov 2003 - Dec 2007

Director of Corporate and Foundation Giving

• Sep 1997 - Nov 2003

Director of Development

• 1994 - 1997

Director of Development

• 1989 - 1994

Assistant Executive Director, Golden Panthers

• 1984 - 1988