Who We Are and How We’ve Got Together

Fun Facts about Each of Us

Aidan Callebaut

Aidan likes the colors blue and green. He enjoys robotics, video games, sports, and cooking/baking. He has been playing the piano since he was 5 years old. He loves math, reading and running. His favorite food is sushi.

Anika Gupta

Anika's favorite colors are black and white. She loves painting, dancing, volleyball and scouting. She is outdoorsy. She likes camping with her scout friends. She loves doing science experiments. She is a team player and love to collobrate.

Antoni Luong-Pham

Antoni has a fondness for the colors blue, black and green. In his free time, he likes to play and tinker with LEGO. During the pandemic, he started exploring robotics and was soon introduced to FLL. Antoni enjoys experimenting with various robotics systems such as EV3, SPIKE Prime, Robot Inventor, and VEX IQ & VEX V5.

Ariana Luong-Pham

Ariana's favorite color is saffire blue. She loves playing with Chemistry, especially making slime of all kinds: butter slime, clear slime, fluffy slime, cloud slime, water slime, toothpaste slime, ziplock slime, icee slime and water-bottle slime!! Of our five team members, Ariana in particular really loves making this website and has spent many, many hours on it.

Ryan Lee

Ryan's favorite color is turquoise. His favorite hobbies are pickleball, baking/cooking, playing chess, and playing video games. He likes to do 3D printing with his elder brother.

Close Friends at Noddin

We have known each other for several years at Noddin Elementary School in San Jose, California:

• Aidan and Ryan have been in the same class since 1st grade (2020-2021),
• Anika has known Aidan and Ryan since 2nd grade (2021-2022),
• Antoni has known the three of us since 3rd grade (2022-2023), and
• Ariana, who is Antoni’s younger sister, has known us since 2023 when she entered 1st grade.

Our Shared Passion for Robotics

We all like and are very curious about robotics, so we have got together to form the Robotmakers team.

• Anika has got inspiration and coaching from her elder brother, who has done FLL many times;
• Aidan has loved building and coding ever since he got his first robotics set;
• Antoni and Ariana have been doing FLL Explore for 2 years; and
• Ryan has always loved building with LEGO and really enjoys doing robotics and coding with his best friends.

Our skills complement each other’s well and we love working together to overcome challenges.