THINKFORFUN - Key Persons

Arun Viswanathan is interested in enriching the classroom experience of the students. He has worked in many fields including the Research and Development of Interactive Teaching Technologies. Arun has put together all the solutions to the word problems, which are available to the students in the ipads at the center. With a MS in Robotics from University of Rhode Island, his aim is to introduce sciences and Robotics at ThinkForFun and make it a one stop solution for developing problem solving skills. Arun works as a customer advocate at a Fortune 10 company.

Priya Arun enjoys teaching students to show them how simple word problems could be approached. She teaches the high school students how to teach the younger kids. Passion, and simplicity is the key. Every student is capable of learning the concepts and applying them to problem solving; it is only a matter of using the right techniques while teaching, while developing students curiosity and motivation to learn and feel successful with problem solving. Priya believes that anything taught with passion, with the appropriate tools and the right focus will be retained by the students. Priya carefully designs the class books and homework, with the aim of giving students variety and depth. Priya was the Valedictorian of the engineering class (over 800 students) in her undergraduate (Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela) in 1995. She has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and works in big data at a Fortune 10 company.

Yogesh Dave is a strong advocate of organizing the thought process early on while still leaving plenty of room for creativity. This delicate balance is very important in skill development of our children. Using math as a medium, he helps kids in developing foundation for critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills early on. Yogesh has MS in Computer Science from Long Island University and has long history of technical leadership and mentoring in various capacities. He is passionate about big data, data science, AI and cloud technologies and enjoys working with kids. Yogesh runs the ThinkForFun Acton location and aims to spread the program in Massachusetts.