Urban Youth Initiative

Meet our Director of Operations

 

A strategic, multidisciplinary designer  up and coming scientists with an eye for innovation and pixel perfection, Oscar Lemus has been working with NYC youth for over ten years. Teaching science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics and in the course, creating and coaching award-winning teams such as the Bronx Task Force and the elementary robotics team Beacon Mindeez. Oscar also created and coached the award-winning team 300 Robo-Spartans and the junior team Little Genius, who represent The School of Science and Applied Learning, all the while introducing STEM to participants and inspiring a cycle of competency in belonging, generosity, independence, and mastery for both middle- and elementary-level scholars. Although his skill level is vast, his greatest expertise revolves in the worlds of interactive computer science and information architecture design. His wish is to combine his knowledge and experience in these areas, to deliver the best creative, innovative, and interactive experience an Urban Youth Initiative participant will always remember. His favorite quote is "In leaning you will teach and in teaching you will learn".