Maria Shapiro

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

Maria is the CEO and Founder of E&P and K2K. She is responsible for developing the curriculum, teaching and networking with professionals in the field to bring the newest technologies to the students. She reaches out to schools promoting E&P, and seeks sponsors for the program. Maria’s background is strongly rooted in technology. From a very young age she attended technology seminars with her parents, and she started robotics and programing while still in primary school. She attended robotics and Java camps at American University. The second one with an age exception (she was not 13 years old yet at that time). The following year she attended camp at Stanford University for Advanced App Development with Google. Maria participated in girls in Engineering programs and a Space Telescope Program at the John Hopkins University. She skipped Programming 1 and took the AP exam in her sophomore year of high school. Currently she is enrolled in Programming 3, focusing on Zero Robotics – a programming competition using satellites in space sponsored by MIT. She is the current Co-President of the ThinkBig club and Vice President of Girls Who Code.

​ E&P was formed with the idea to give back and expose students at a young age to technology and the opportunities it brings. Maria started teaching in 2013, which formed a foundation of what currently is E&P. She curated a curriculum on how to teach 5th Graders programming that included elements from Code.org, Scratch, and intro to Java programing. Maria is constantly updating the curriculum and looking for ways to grow the organization. 

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Sid Ajay

Chief Information Officer

Sid is currently a Junior at Winston Churchill High School. He has a deep-rooted passion for STEM and technology. From a young age, he developed an interest in mathematics and engineering. When he came to Churchill, he furthered his knowledge by taking up courses in computer science and physics. Aside from rigorous academics, he enjoys cooking and music as his forms of expression. At school, he is also a member of the DECA club which educates high school students in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management through simulations and competition. Sid truly enjoys business management to help solve problems and optimize results, especially when combined with STEM.  

Joseph Primmer

Chief Technology Officer

Joseph has had a love for technology from a young age. His interest in electronics and fascination with the world around him drove him to make, take apart, and teach himself things pertaining to technology and science. He jump started his passion for electronics and computer science when, for a 5th grade science project, he decided to prototype a binary adder (a critical component of calculators and CPUs) from discrete electronic components such as transistors and resistors. This exposed him to concepts such as computer logic and some basic principles of programming. He began self-teaching himself programming in middle school using languages such as BASIC, C, and Python on platforms such as the TI-83 calculator, BASIC Stamp, Arduino, and Raspberry-Pi. However, Joseph craved more than what he could self-teach himself, so he took classes such as robotics and animation in middle school and urged his parents to sign him up for summer camps teaching children programming and robotics. In late middle school Joseph helped lead a FIRST Lego league robotics team to 1st place in performance on a local level. Joseph has taken computer science throughout high school and has competed in competitions such as the University of Maryland High School Programming Contest and MIT’s Zero Robotics. Joseph is currently leading his high school’s Zero Robotics team. Aside from his technological endeavors and side projects (anything from robots to iPhone apps), Joseph is also a Maryland certified Emergency Medical Technician and enjoys video editing and running.
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Areya Campbell-Rosen

Chief Marketing Officer

Areya Campbell-Rosen is a junior, who has been taking theatre classes at Churchill since she was a freshman. Previously, she has played Penny in Churchill’s production of You Can’t Take it With You, acted in Churchill’s One Acts, and she was in several Lumina Productions. Areya is active in, and passionate about Forensics public speaking, and slam poetry. Areya has also been in the Chinese Immersion Program for 11 years and is currently enrolled in AP Chinese Language and Culture. 

Board:

Michael Brownrigg

Michael’s background is in both public service – as a diplomat for over a decade serving the country in such places as Syria and Hong Kong – and in the private sector, where for 12 years he was a venture capitalist helping small companies grow in the US and China. In 2010, Michael and three partners co-founded Total Impact Advisors, a merchant bank aimed at helping companies that do good things – like provide clean water in India, tire recycling in the US, or more productive farming techniques in Rwanda – get the capital and expertise they need to grow. Michael enjoys looking for ways to put finance to work to solve local, national and international problems in sustainable ways.