Vishnu Challa is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and is the Site Manager of the Spartan Shield. He plays clarinet in band and enjoys challenging himself in courses such as AP Physics 2. Outside of school, he applies his technical knowledge as the Programming Team Lead for the robotics team the Winter Soldiers. They have competed at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) World Championship twice, and he uses his three years of experience to recruit new members to ensure the continuation of the team. Vishnu also tutors math and English at Best Brains Learning Center. His career goal is to become a Control Systems Engineer at NASA, and to achieve this, he hopes to study computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. With his diverse selection of activities and hard-working, independent personality, one can say that he is well on his way to realizing that dream.