Melissa is an occupational therapist who works in ergonomics with business and industry across the world. Through this professional work, and her son’s love of building/coding and LEGOS, she discovered FIRST and became passionate about developing a STEM Program in Brown County. Melissa has been a coach and a mentor within the league for 5 years, has supported the growth of the K-3 program as well as the organization as a whole and is now the acting Vice President for the organization. Melissa’s goals for Brown County FIRST Robotics are to continue to offer STEM learning to all children in our community without barrier.