Kristen Kucko received her B.S. degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 1996. She is currently the Director of the Automation and Robotics Lab at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the faculty sponsor of TJ Space, the high school's CubeSat team. She is also the principal investigator on TJREVERB. Prior to her current role, she worked at Apple. Additionally, she has worked as an application developer, test engineer and systems engineer.