Dan Mantz is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for the Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation, and has more than 25 years of engineering experience solving complex problems in the software, electrical, and mechanical fields. The REC Foundation is one of the world’s leading science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) nonprofit organizations whose mission is to spark student interest and involvement in STEM by engaging students in hands-on, affordable, and sustainable curriculum-based robotics programs.