Our Team at Mathnasium of Papillion

Robyn

Robyn is a Nebraska transplant from the Pacific Northwest. She works full time as a Kindergarten Teacher in Omaha and freelances as a teaching artist for the Rose Theater and other local performing arts venues. With a Master of Arts in Teaching in elementary and special education, she has a passion for helping all learners, regardless of age or ability, find their inner mathematician! When she isn’t teaching future world builders around the Omaha metro, she can be found making silly jokes as a musical improv teacher and performer at the Backline Comedy Theater in downtown Omaha, eating burritos, or singing love ballads to her cat, Pancake.

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Katherine

Fariba

Fariba is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska - Omaha. She is good at problem-solving and data analysis. Fariba enjoys working on mathematics questions with adults and kids. That’s why she chose to work with Mathnasium. When she was a fifth-grade student, in a math competition between 129 students, she earned the top score. She was a math assistant for one year when she was an undergraduate student. She lived in New Jersey before moving to Nebraska and has traveled to Washington DC, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts so far. She hopes to travel to all the states of the United States and then travel all over the world. She also enjoys jazz music.

Owen

Lily

Lily is a senior at Millard West High school. She is in the STEM Academy and is currently taking AP Statistics and AP Calculus AB. Because of her passion of math and art, Lily plans to major in Architecture in college.

Already having teaching experience, Lily knows creative ways to help each student and challenge them to reach their potential. She loves connecting with students in order to help them learn and grow!

Outside of school and Mathnasium, Lily loves to travel to new places where she tries new food, sees the sights, and embraces new cultures. In her spare time, Lily likes to read, listen to music, and do the New York Times games. Her favorite number as a kid was 7, but has since changed to be 2 because it's easy to work with.

Michaela

Michaela has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and an associate’s in science. She is studying to become an officer in the Air Force. As much as Michaela misses calculus, her favorite class was deterministic operations research. She has also done a year of python programming, which came in handy for making lists for long math problems. She is completely obsessed with drawing the unit circle and loves trigonometry because of that.

Michaela has worked as a special education paraprofessional at an elementary school. This gives a helpful background for working with kids. In her spare time, she enjoys reading any and all genres. Her passion is to learn as much as she can.

Her favorite number is pi because it is infinite.

Makayla

Makayla is currently a senior at UNO studying neuroscience. They have an associate's degree from MCC in general science. After getting their degree in neuroscience, they plan to continue their education and possibly study abroad.
Makayla greatly enjoys math and has completed mathematics through Calculus III.
In their spare time, Makayla typically plays video games or spends time with family.
Makayla's favorite number is infinity because it never ends. It can be infinitely small or infinitely big.

Vicky

Vicky is a junior at Papillion La Vista High School. She is currently taking AP Calculus AB, AP Physics 1, and she is a part of the biomedical pathway of the Health Systems Academy. After high school, she plans to study medicine to become an interventional radiologist.

In her free time, she enjoys playing the flute & piano, shopping, traveling, and conducting her high school marching band. Vicky’s favorite number is 12 because it is very versatile.

Kim

Kim is a resource teacher at Trumble Park Elementary here in Papillion.  She enjoys coteaching 5th and 6th grade math classes with  the students as well as modifying curriculum to meet the needs of her students' various learning styles. Kim loves seeing the “light bulb” go on in her students' brains when they understand a concept or process.  She has enjoyed seeing the same pride and lightbulb moments here at Mathnasium with the mathletes.

Kim has two grown daughters.  Her oldest works at an equine vet clinic in Lexington, Kentucky and her youngest attends UNL, studying beef and livestock management.  In her free time, Kim loves to travel to visit her daughters, attend her niece’s and nephew’s sporting events and spend time with family.  Kim’s favorite number has always been 3….but she is really not sure why!  

Breck

Meet Breck! Breck goes to Millard West High School and is enrolled in the Millard STEM Academy. In his academy he takes classes like AP Physics, AP Stats and other engineering related courses. He plans to go to college and study some sort of engineering.

In his free time he likes to work out and hang out with friends. Breck's interests include math, sports, and music.

His favorite number is 11 because his favorite football player Alex Smith wore 11 and he was born in November, the 11th month.

Daniel

Daniel is a senior attending Millard West High School. He has completed Pre-Calculus, AP Physics 1, and is enrolled in both AP Statistics and AP Physics 2. Daniel is part of the Millard STEM academy which focuses on engineering and design. After graduation, he plans to major in mechanical engineering and play football.

In his free time Daniel enjoys playing basketball, football and golf with friends. He also likes to work on his car, play sports, watch football and lift weights.

Daniel's favorite number is 52 because it is his football jersey number and Ray Lewis’s number.