Adam Romano

Mr. Adam Romano, EHS’s new Academic ESports and coding teacher, cites his foray into education as a series of happy accidents. He initially went to college to receive his undergraduate in music business. While on the job hunt, he temporarily became a substitute teacher and realized that he preferred being in the classroom a lot more than any of his music business internships.

After an education degree and countless interviews, he ended up with a computer science job in primary school.

“I have always had a tech background; I have always loved messing around with computers, coding, robotics, and web design. So, that was a happy accident… and that was thirteen years ago,” said Romano, adding on with a quote he recalls: “Computer science is the language of teaching a human how to tell a computer to do a job.”

As an ESports aficionado, his favorite game remains 2019’s Control by Remedy Entertainment, which he recommends for fans of single-player and sci-fi games.

After more than a decade of teaching, his favorite part remains witnessing the so-called “lightbulb moments” among students.

“Every single time you’ll find a number of students in each of your classes that didn’t know they could have a future building robots, a future building websites, a future playing or being around people playing video games. So, that moment when you see a student light up, because they realize ‘I can make a career out of these things that I love’ —that is my favorite part of being an educator,” said Romano.

Romano maintains that even teachers can never stop learning, and recommends that educators begin to take pride in their mistakes and start learning WITH their students.