Jonathan Daudelin has been competing in FLL since age 13. In 2007, his team won the First Place Robot Performance and First Place Innovative Robot awards at the World Festival after their robot achieved perfect scores in all three rounds. He is a contributor to The NXT Step blog and a co-author of "The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book" (No Starch) and "The NXT Robotics Competition Workbook" (self-published).
Eric D. Burdo has been infatuated with robotics and creating with LEGO bricks since he was a little kid. He became a contributor to The NXT Step blog in late 2006, a few months after receiving the NXT kit as a birthday gift. He currently works as a computer programmer in Maine and as a part-time computer and LEGO robotics teacher.
Laurens Valk is a member of the MINDSTORMS Community Partners, a select group of experts who help test and develop new MINDSTORMS products, and his model is featured as one of the bonus robots on the EV3 packaging. Valk is the author of the bestselling LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book (No Starch Press) and he blogs about robots at robotsquare.com.