Karthik Kanagasabapathy

Karthik Kanagsabapathy has designed competition robotics games that have been played by over 75,000 teams of students across the globe. He has won numerous awards for his dedication to furthering robotics education, including the prestigious Woodie Flowers Finalist Award for exemplary mentoring in FIRST. He was lead mentor for Team 1114 from 2004-2016, where he was a pioneer of FIRST analytics, helping invent the popular stat 'OPR'. He also hosts various international robotics events, having worked with media personalities such Mythbusters' Grant Imahara and Kari Byron, gave an internationally recognized TEDx talk, has hosted televised robotics specials on ESPN and CBS, and consulted with the writing and production rooms for episodes of Degrassi featuring Drake.