Robotics

Paul is a certified Positive Discipline in the Classroom educator. He teaches after-school robotics and coaches elementary and middle school Lego League robotics teams for Avenues. His company Manhattan House of Robots develops STEM programs for after-school and summer enrichment. Before working in education Paul spent a decade in China managing engineering teams through every phase of product design, user feedback, production and quality control. He's a Certified Scrum Master and is part of an Agile Education community working to teach children collaborative teamwork, a self-guiding visual cycle of learning, and failure as a necessary, positive step in the iterative cycle of improvement. Paul is also an award-winning writer and has published dozens of magazine columns on fatherhood, apprenticeship education, the creative benefits of multilingualism, and raising third culture children. He speaks English, Chinese and German.