Armando Rodriguez is an educator, Solar System Ambassador, former engineer and an educator member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). As an engineer, he supported multiple programs with mechanical engineering, computational fluid dynamics analysis, test data analysis, and design for underwater vehicles, thrusters, structures and electronic equipment assemblies. As an educator, he developed and implemented project-based learning curriculum across a number of engineering courses. He has mentored student teams in the Conrad Challenge, Team America Rocketry Challenge, FIRST Robotics, VEX Robotics numerous other academic and engineering competitions. As a Solar System Ambassador, a volunteer spokesperson for NASA, he shares the latest science and discoveries of NASA's space exploration missions through a variety of events in the South Florida communities. Currently, he teaches engineering and science, and mentors student STEM teams at a high school in Miami, Florida.