About SHADOWCRYSTAL ENGINEERING

2026 Q2 Business Plan

A student-led non profit organization increasing STEM awareness for our community aswell as allowing for any student to take interest in the team. Regardless of what school they attend or how much money they can spend, every person should be provided STEM learning.

CORE VALUES

• Fun: Have a engaging learning environment.
• Impact: Teach what we learn: through STEMinars.
• Inclusion: Regardless of skill, each person is equally valued as one with higher experience.

LEADERSHIP & FOUNDERS

• Trystan Lord (AKA John PID) - FOUNDER and TEAM CAPTAIN responsible for robot programming and electrical wiring. He founded SHADOWCRYSTAL to expand access to the engineering education given to him in his own high school experience: former lead of FRC team 8726.
• Tikhon Kozlov - COFOUNDER: President of the Urbana High School Rocketry Club with over three years of model rocketry experience.
• Victor Wang - COFOUNDER: Reached ISEF and IEEE SERA 2026 conference by award winning self-built drones.