Ben joined IHMC in June 2023 on a self-directed study internship working with Dr. Robert Griffin and the robotics team. Ben, a graduate of Pensacola High School, will study computer science at the University of Florida. He taught coding at James Benny Washington Education and Sports, where he created lesson plans and taught Scratch and controlling simple robots. His hobbies include Magic the Gathering, juggling, and playing board and video games.