Current Mentors
From artists to engineers, our mentor team consists of passionate, talented and creative teens from all around the bay area. Mentors are responsible for all day-to-day MakeX tasks such as staffing, shop maintenance, finance, recruiting and training, and more.
Eli Gaskin
Eli is a senior at Gunn High School. He enjoys building rockets, chemistry, working on high-voltage electronics, and CAD. Eli is also a cat enthusiast, and likes to send his friends photos of his cats, Bella and Obe. Outside of MakeX, Eli exists.
"pain" -Eli Gaskin
David Kim
David is a Junior at Henry M. Gunn and enjoys rockets, planes, and rocket planes. He is a member of his school's aeronautics club, jazz and concert band, as well as a avid member of the track team. He has one cat and two older sisters.
"All good 👍"- David Kim
Carter Baginskis
Carter is a senior at Living Wisdom High School and enjoys programming, woodworking, CAD, photography, digital art, and anything MakeX..the list goes on. Outside of MakeX Carter runs cross country and track and loves playing guitar.
"Hi there" "For giggles" -Carter Baginskis
Adam Fong
Adam is a sophomore at Palo Alto High School. He likes drawing, painting, graphic design, and making useless things. Also playing badminton. His favorite MakeX activity is vacuuming sawdust (try it, it's fun).
"huh" - Adam Fong
Nitzan Drori
Nitzan is a junior at Gunn High School and enjoys playing percussion, drums and other instruments. She is a member of the Gunn Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. Outside of MakeX, Nitzan enjoys gaming with Eli and David, and building legos.
Nolan Nguyen
Nolan is a junior at Palo Alto High School. Nolan loves to play tennis, mess with 3D printers, garden, and design cool things. Nolan also runs the 3D print with CAD club at Paly.
"nice" - Nolan Nguyen
Jason Chen
Jason is a Sophomore at The Nueva School. He likes building useless contraptions, learning and talking about abstract math, and talking to people who know how to use physics. He also does a sport called Wushu at Elite Kung Fu. If he's ever at MakeX, come by and chat with him about math that you're learning!
"wait, what?" - Jason
Past Mentors <3
Aashai Avadhani
Aditi Jain
Annalee Soohoo
Arunim Agarwal
Benji Nio
Claire Kokontis
David Anwyl
Dhara Yu
Gregory Xie
Isabella Yu
Jevan Yu
Johnathon Lu
Kai Gallagher
Kesi Soundararajan
Kevin Dee
Maria Ramon
Michael Wang
Nicholas Mo
Peter Turnbull
Richa Krishna
Takaaki Sagawa
William Meng
Weijing Chen
Yonatan Maor
Sofia Little
Noah Mililvojevic
Founders
James Wang
Jeremy Trilling
Nathan Kau
The guy who pays for the website
Also Nathan Kau