Mr. Monterrosa is a bilingual 5th grade teacher with a university background in bilingual, special education, science, curriculum, and instruction. Mr. Monterrosa believes in priority management and is dedicated to researching the role of motivation, mindset, and methodology as the basis of success in learning. He is joining the team this year as a robotics coach. “I want to make a difference in the lives of every robotics student. They will never be the same.”

Mr Russell  is coaching 4/5th grade robotics this year after school. Usually we find him in the Music rooms at Bowie and Travis Elementary preparing young musicians to play and sing and love music. Mr. Russell has been with GISD 27 years and is really excited to see what our students will do with robotics as a new field for them to explore as he is doing the same thing along side them!

This is Ms. Berrones 16th year in Greenville ISD. She has taught all subjects in various combinations in 3rd-5th grade. In 2019, she was offered her dream position teaching STEM Lab where she is teaching today after earning a PLTW Launch certification.

Ms. Berrones began her robotics coaching journey in 2012, the last year Greenville ISD used the Lego Mindstorms program.  She was given the exciting opportunity to beta test a new program, now known as VEX IQ, at VEX Worlds in Anaheim, California.  Following that year, she coached non-competition robotics at Crockett where her teams always placed in the top 3 teams at the end of year in-district tournaments.  She attended Worlds again in 2017 in Louisville, Kentucky as a chaperone for her daughter's Sixth Grade Center team.  She transitioned to competition robotics in 2019, where another team earned a Worlds bid by placing third at Regionals, but were unable to attend due to COVID.  Last year another team brought her to Worlds for a third time, this time in Dallas.  She is excited each year to bring new students into the program and uses their excitement to prepare them for all of the future opportunities in robotics that Greenville ISD has to offer.