Current Mentors:
From artists to engineers, our mentor team consists of passionate, talented and creative teens from all around the bay area (and Washington). Mentors are responsible for all day-to-day MakeX tasks such as staffing, shop maintenance, finance, recruiting and training, and more.
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Aditi Jain
Aditi is a Senior at Gunn and thoroughly enjoys listening to music. She also enjoys programming, working with electronics, building Pokémon themed model rockets, and reading terrible books that people recommend to her. Outside of MakeX, she enjoys playing soccer and the ukulele.
"hmm" - Aditi Jain
Eli Gaskin
Carter Baginskis
Eli Gaskin is a sophomore at Gunn High School. He enjoys building rockets, chemistry, and baking. 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
Carter Baginskis is a junior at Woodside Priory 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
"You Know, For Kids" - The Hudsucker Proxy
Past Mentors (<3)
Aashai Avadhani
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
Yonatan Maor
Sofia Little
Noah Mililvojevic
Founders
James Wang
Jeremy Trilling
Nathan Kau
The guy who pays for the website
Also Nathan Kau