Amy Eguchi is an assistant professor at Division of Education at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. She has been teaching educational robotics (LEGO robotics) for 2^nd grade up including K-12 educators and undergraduate students. She has been involved in RoboCupJunior – a project-oriented educational initiative that sponsors local, regional and international robotic events for young students up through age 19, since 2000 (http://www.robocupjunior.org). RoboCupJunior offers three challenges – Soccer, Rescue and Dance. She is a member of Dance Technical Committee and RoboCup Executive Committee. Also, she is a co-chair of RoboCupJunior International 2009 in Austria, and the chair of 2010 in Singapore

Barbara Bratzel has been a teacher of science and mathematics for more than twenty years, teaching every age from kindergarten through high school. She currently teaches at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of Physics by Design (College House Books, 2005, 2007; Mindstorms software edition to be published Summer 2009), an activity book for science teachers, which uses LEGO Mindstorms to teach physics and engineering.

Birger Brevik is at present educational researcher at Akershus University College Norway, and is presently earning a doctoral degree in science education at the University of Oslo. He has previously ten years of practice as teacher in the Norwegian upper secondary school. He has used LEGO in his teaching practise since 2001. Through his involvement in the development of the project “Teknobuss” Brevik has taught more than 3000 pupils at elementary school level technology by using ROBOLAB. The title of his master thesis: Technological work processes into elementary school, LEGO ROBOLAB as a pedagogical tool. His present main interest is to increase the understanding about the application of technology to teaching in technical and vocational sections of the Norwegian upper secondary school, through his PhD thesis under the title: Development of new learning environments based on pedagogical robotics and on automatically controlled tasks

Suyun Aidarov is MSW, National Coordinator of UNDP Vocational Education for Street Children Project (VESC) in Kyrgyzstan. The VESC Project funded by the Norwegian Government is currently being implemented by United Nations Development Program in Kyrgyzstan. The Project helps the Kyrgyz government and civil society to reduce poverty and increase quality of life through the establishment of vocational education courses for street children in vocational schools. It strengthens the capacity of vocational education system and helps the street children better reintegrate into societal mainstream. Among a wide range of various activities the project aims to develop street children methodology and concept with focus on the issues of social inclusion.

My name is Chris Bracken; I am a teacher from Tasmania, Australia who has been involved with Robotics Education for the past 5 years. For 06/07 I was on the National committee for RoboCup Junior Australia and I am currently the secretary for Robotics Tasmania. I have also set up a company Proactive PD (www.proactivepd.com.au) that presents workshops to teachers, mostly in Robotics. All my workshops are based on the NXT, and I use a combination of software (NXT-G, Robolab 2.9 and Robot C). I am particularly interested in meaningful educational outcomes for the NXT in the classroom, the cross curricula aspect of Robotics Education and the potential of basing large chunks of high school Physics courses around using the NXT.

Lisbeth Valther Pallesen heads the Community, Education & Direct Division which was set up in February 2006. CED is the division that handles the direct contact with consumers, establishes new business and is in charge of development and sales of educational products. Lisbeth Valther Pallesen joined the LEGO Group in 1989. Since 2003 she has been in overall charge of the LEGO Group’s Internet activities and was in 2006 appointed Executive Vice President of CED, and at the same time became a member of the LEGO Group’s Corporate Management.

Morgan Hynes is a Post Doc at the Center for Engineering and Education Outreach. He received his Ph. D. from Tufts University in Engineering Education. Morgan's dissertation research focused on middle-school teachers and the subject matter and pedagogical content knowledge they used and developed as they taught an engineering unit using LEGO robotics. Morgan looks forward to continuing work with teachers as they prepare to teach engineering in the classroom.

Sarah Kuhn is a Professor in the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development and a Faculty Associate of the Center for Women and Work at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is a member of the Social Science Advisory Board of the National Center for Women in Information Technology. Her current research is about joining computer science and arts in undergraduate education (http://teaching.cs.uml.edu/Performamatics/), and creating web based tools that allow students to analyze and share sensor data that measure environmentally and socially important phenomena (http://www.cs.uml.edu/isense/). Kuhn received her PhD in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. She was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Workforce Needs In Information Technology and has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.