Adam Rodgers is the director of the Guard Up After School Program. He has worked in child care since 2005, with various camps and after school programs in the Boston area. Most recently, he comes to us from the YMCA where he ran an after school program. In addition to a myriad of safety certifications, he is an EEC qualified site director and an ACA certified camp director. Adam has a bachelors degree in Archaeology, and has a special interest in classical Rome and Greece. Adam loves how he gets to run an After School Program during the school year and then the Wizards & Warriors Summer Camp during the summertime. 

Corey Philips has been fascinated with world mythology for as long as he can recall. As a teenager, he would lead friends and neighborhood children on adventures through the woods and yards of his neighborhood, replacing cops and robbers with elves and orcs, knights and monsters. While in High School, he got involved in his school’s drama club. He then attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied stage combat and melee combat interpretation. While at the university, he also learned theatrical and special effects makeup techniques. His dual interests in teaching and makeup led him, at one point, to working in a daycare center by day and a haunted house by night.

John Herring comes to us with a professional theatrical background. He has participated in over 100 productions of stage and film, many of them professional. His knowledge of Olympic Fencing spans all three traditional weapons, and his expertise with other sword forms stem from being a boy in love with the romance of former times. John also has an extensive stage combat background. He originally joined Guard Up back in 2005, but all too swiftly moved to Texas for other pursuits. But, the call of the sword has its ineluctable allure, and so he has rejoined the Guard Up team, becoming one of the After School instructors.