Award-Winning Computer Science Tutors serving Rockford, IL

I began tutoring as a volunteer assignment in high school, later being promoted to an advisory block teacher my senior year. While a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I continued to tutor other students, mainly in physics and mathematics. Eventually, this lead me to a position as a TA and...... I feel a student does not know, until they can do. Thus, my approach is problem centered. There are 4 steps I walk...

I am a senior at The University of Chicago studying Biological Sciences and am currently in the medical school application process. I began tutoring elementary and high school students while I was in high school as a part of my school's National Honor Society chapter and I have pursued teaching opportunities ever since. At the...

Innovation has always mattered to me. I've spent a great deal of my time convincing others that innovative ideas are worth exploring, and consider myself a technology evangelist. I was working with satellite phone technology, wireless application protocol, mobile messaging and digital music before the internet was on phones, texting was the norm or iTunes...

I spend entirely too much time working on computer related projects and could use an intervention, possibly involving a lobotomy. I suspect I am ADD patient zero. Asimov's Robot stories led me to a life-long interest and PhD in artificial intelligence from Northwestern University. I have worked for Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Citrix Labs, and Ernst...

...am currently an undergraduate student at Cornell University. I intend to major in physics and either minor or double major in computer science. In the past, I have tutored middle school and high school students, mostly in mathematics, but I also helped with middle school science and English as well as ACT preparation. I look...

I have always been a huge fan of helping others and computer science, so I thought that I might as well combine the two! I have always been looking for opportunities to help others around me, including tutoring and volunteer activities. This has been a part of me for as long as I can remember,...

I am a student at Milwaukee School of Engineering, working towards a degree in computer engineering. I am very passionate about math and computer science, leading me to pick this major and these topics to tutor. However, I excel most at test prep and filling in any knowledge gaps. I have taken many standardized tests...

I graduated from Southwestern Illinois University in Edwardsville with a BS in Mathematics Education. My first job was teaching junior high school math in East St. Louis. Some of my students were nearly as old as I. It was quite an experience for a first year teacher. Very challenging. I moved to the northern part...

My story starts about 15 years ago, college is just about to start and I have zero direction in my life. The only thing that I really know, is that I do have a passion for technology. My growth in the beginning was very painful, working a couple minimum wage jobs while in college, and...

Recent graduate from the University of Utah where I studied machine learning and gravitational lensing. I graduated with my master's in astrophysics and am currently pursuing a career in education.

Hello! I graduated from Northern Illinois University with my Bachelors in Elementary Education. I have taught in a 4th grade classroom for 4 years but have been working with children for about 7 years. I love to make learning fun and engaging for the student. I love working one on one with a child to...

I am a freshman studying Computer Science at Northeastern University's school of Computer and Information Science. In High School I was an AP Scholar with distinction, a title earned for scoring above average on 7 AP tests. As a Senior in High School while taking AP Calculus AB, I was a peer tutor in my...

I was once in the same shoes of many Varsity Tutors' students. I was struggling to learn my subjects and preparing for the SAT standardized test. I came from a rural high school (DuBois, PA) with no AP classes as well as no Honors classes. I was projected that engineering would be too difficult for...

My personal philosophy on teaching and learning is founded around my cumulative experiences as a student, instructor, mentor and researcher. Having been an active participant from both sides of the classroom, in university settings, I know that successful learning is synonymous with long term retention, which in-turn facilitates the ability to apply knowledge and think...

Throughout high school, I spent my lunch hour tutoring students who were struggling in their classes. Initially, I found this difficult; it was a challenge determining exactly where a student's understanding of a topic was faulty. Over time, however, I developed a keener sense for the hurdles that students sometimes face when learning, as well...

Tutoring represents the opportunity to work closely with a student in particular subjects I am passionate about. As a chemical engineering student at Vanderbilt University, I have always been passionate about learning math and science. I have also particularly excelled in these fields, perhaps due to my passion, and I managed to score a 790...

I received my PhD in mathematics from Drexel University in 2019. I really enjoyed teaching as a graduate student, and working as a tutor here seems like a nice way to get back into it. Before graduate school, I went to Johns Hopkins. I started out as a "chemical and biomolecular engineering" major, but then...

I am passionate about helping students because I believe that education unlocks not only academic success, but confidence and lifelong curiosity. Over the course of my career, I have seen firsthand how understanding a subject deeply can transform a student's motivation and open new opportunities for their future. I have extensive experience working with students...

I have a lot of experience in tutoring individuals from the elementary school age all the way up to adults, in subjects ranging from elementary math to pre-calculus. I have previously worked as a tutor with other organizations in both a group and one-on-one tutoring atmosphere. I am patient and can easily identify what pace...

I have a stats PhD and expertise tutoring or TAing stats and math for high school, college, graduate, and professional level. I'd also be comfortable tutoring for SAT, SAT math, and GRE in that order.