COMET Leadership Team

COMET is the result of a collaboration between Children's Institute and SophiTEC with the shared goal of helping schools use the power of information to better serve children and youth.

About Children’s Institute

For over 50 years, Children's Institute, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, through sound research and comprehensive evaluation services, has developed and promoted effective prevention and early intervention programs, materials and best practices for children, families, schools and communities. A multi-dimensional organization, its staff includes experts in psychology, economics, education, social work, business, public policy, communications, financial planning, data analysis and processing. Children's Institute has a proven track record for creating innovative solutions to the real-life challenges facing our schools and agencies serving children and youth.

A. Dirk Hightower, Ph.D., Executive Director
Children's Institute, Inc.
274 N. Goodman Street
Suite D103
Rochester, NY 14607

About SophiTEC

SophiTEC provides high-level consultation services, delivers specific software development projects and provides outsourcing services in the domains of client/server databases, expert systems, software architecture and real time process control applications.

Serge Lossa, Ph.D., President
SophiTEC
640 Kreag Road
Pittsford, NY 14534