By Asilata Bapat and Kevin Carde

Answer: MARVIN

This is a metapuzzle. The flavourtext hints at staff names, and that we only have to use the words that begin with M. Each of the M words contains as a substring the name of a current Mathcamp staff member.

The flavourtext also hints that we should arrange the staff members by the order of their progress. We can observe that the name of each staff member starts at a different position inside its word, starting from the zeroth position (MARK in MARKET) to the fifth position (NIC in MECHANICS). This gives us the following:

MARKet
mARIo
mbASIc
mulTIMedia
monoMIAl
mechaNICs

Taking the staff names in this order and Caesar shifting their initial letters by the amounts mentioned, we get the answer: MARVIN.