Randy Baden started his LASA mentoring and volunteering in 1998 as a band dad cooking and hauling equipment for the marching band. His son Joel joined team 418 in the 2000-2001 season. Randy enjoys helping and mentoring the energetic students as much as his earlier youth sports team coaching. His career in welding and fabrication brings an added dimension to team robot building. He is in his 24th year with team 418 Purple Haze.

Vignesh got his start in FIRST as a high school student in North Carolina starting in 2012, on team 4290, and immediately fell in love with the program. He went on to study Computer Science and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he spent his spare time mentoring team 3331. Upon graduating from university, he went on to work for Lenovo, and mentored team 4561. He moved to Austin in late 2022, started working for AMD, and has been mentoring LASA ever since. When he's not teaching students software and electrical skills, you can find him working on various open-source software projects, enjoying music, watching anime, and following Formula 1.

Shawn joined LASA Robotics in 2024 after a few years with an FTC robotics team. He has two students attending LASA, and is part of the Raptor Band pit crew. Shawn studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Rice University. He has a broad engineering background and currently works at Dell focused on future technologies and large compute clusters. Shawn enjoys spending time with his family, camping and mountain biking, tinkering, and is on a long quest to learn the piano.

Vince first joined LASA Robotics as a student back in 2014. After graduating from LASA, he studied Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University and spent 5 years mentoring FRC Team 461 in Indiana and 2 years mentoring FRC Team 931 in St. Louis. He currently works as an engineer for Boeing and has been happily mentoring LASA again since moving back to Austin in 2022. When he's not teaching students design and build skills, you can find Vince working on small scale battlebots or DJ'ing around town.