Parachute Challenge

Christina Diaz is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Growing up, her mother and father both encouraged her to pursue her curiosity about science, engineering, and the universe. In 2013, Diaz graduated with a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from California Polytechnic State University, and she began working at …

SpriteBox

Meg Gallagher is a software engineer at Walmart Technology, and her path to this career was not a typical one. She graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in clinical dietetics and spent her first few years after college helping patients with nutritional risks and deficiencies. Though she loved working with patients, she started learning …

Nonstop Fountain

Elizabeth Ruedas is a surface water engineer for Michael Baker International. She has a passion for civil engineering and works with land developers and local business owners to develop projects that take into account the engineering, science, and environmental aspects of surface water. Ruedas is an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Orange County Past …

Hour of Code

Sarika graduated in 2019 from UT Austin with a bachelor's in Linguistics and a minor in Computer Science. Sarika knew she wanted to pursue linguistics, the study of human language and communication, when she took an introductory class offered at her high school. In college, she learned to combine her passion for studying language with …