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We are very pleased to announce our staff and support team that has helped us and will help us out in our first high school work experience program (HS university/industry internships) in Summer 2008 in partnership with the Enterprise Development Center at NJIT – with very special thanks to Judith Sheft, Jerry Creighton and Yvonne Drake for their phenomenal support.

1- Harold Olmstead: Top senior advisor, knowledge engineer, outreach expert and real world education architect.

2- Dr. Deborah Kuzma: Top advisor, supporter and Vice Principle of Mount Olive High school.

3- Andrea Normandia: Top advisor, supporter, facilitator and Johnson and Johnson TAP program director and key partner.

4- Kathy Spittle: Operations manager (in charge of supervision, operations and staff) – also in direct charge of all Thursdays

5- Matt Luminoso: Supervisor, coach and advisor – also in direct charge of all Mondays

6- Chu Hui Chong: Teaching and advising capstone team project manager – also supervising students activities all Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays

7- John Crepezzi: Software engineering coach, advisor and subject matter expert – will run various training sessions during the internship program

8- John Bellone: Advisor, coach and subject matter expert - available as a resource after business hours

9- Kimler Livingston-Williamson: Advisor, coach and subject matter expert.

10- Kevin Hom: Supervisor, coach and advisor – also will help us directly in daily activities M/T/TH

11- Kenneth Hom: senior member of the Parents advisory board

12- Roberta Millman-Ide: senior member of the Parents advisory board – will also support Mount Olive High School needs

13- Chris Ojeda: Senior member of the Parents advisory board

14- Maureen Clarke: Senior member of the Parents advisory board

15- John Sunderland: Senior advisor and program architect.

16- Ketul Patel: Senior alumni and key industry advisor from Johnson and Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ.  
 
17- Nolan Baptiste: Teaching and advising capstone team project manager – also supervising students activities all Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
 
18- Burim Dauti: Teaching and advising capstone team project manager – also supervising students activities all Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays - specially Math and BME projects.
 
19- Osama Eljabiri: Director of Connections Program. 
 
Of course, we cannot be sufficiently grateful to our sponsors who have offered wonderful projects opportunities to our high school students:

- Dr. Lisa Simone: Outstanding Professor at Biomedical Engineering Department at NJIT

- Dr. Bruce Bukiet: Associate Dean of the College of Science and Arts and Professor at the Math department at NJIT

- Miguel Perez: Founder of Morpholytics Company

- Harley Carnes: from CBS - founder of Science Notebook project. 

- Dr. Cesar Bandera: Founder of BanDeMar Networks company

- Dr. Richard Olsen: Founder of Science Notebook company

- Jerry Drake: Founder of Work station company

We are also very thankful for the great support from:
 
- The President of the Students Senate at NJIT (Baker)
- Chief Editor of the Vector at NJIT (Tracisio) 
 
as very remarkable student’s organizations at NJIT.