:David Campey has been enjoyineering as a software developer and start-up tech builder in Cape Town for 20+ years, founder of afrolabs.co.za and coderlevelup.org, and a founding member of SAPIENT. 

:David has grown into a role leading the growth of Code Club and through that supporting the roll out of the new Coding & Robotics Curriculum in South Africa. 

His turtle-bots project typifies how we can work to make robotics more exciting and accessible.

Dr. Matthew S. Huber is a Research Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban, South Africa, and a founding member of SAPIENT. 

He has run workshops on impact craters for NASA, organized conferences for the European Astrobiology Institute, and has lectured on impact craters for many public organizations. His research has been published in high-ranking journals. His work has been featured in Newsweek, Fox News, the Washington Post, EOS, and Live Science, among other outlets. He has participated in numerous radio interviews. 

Dr. Huber received his doctorate in planetary science from the University of Vienna and then worked at the Vrije Universitat Brussel in Belgium before relocating to South Africa. 

The SAPIENT Rover on a Martian landscape