Angelina (California)
Angelina has always been passionate about inventing and promoting technologies for public safety, presenting her research on lifeguard scout and rescue drones at the International Science and Engineering Fair and at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers conferences. Angelina was the first-place winner of the SWE Senior Division Awards at the 2024 Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair, a recipient of the SWENext STEM in Action Award in 2023, and a founding member of her school’s SWENext club. She combines her love of engineering with her desire to enhance safety through her two inventions, one granted and one pending a patent at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Angelina is also the president of All Girls STEM Society, a nonprofit organization that aspires to ameliorate the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields by hosting free monthly STEM workshops and NASA Astro Camps for more than 9,000 girls from more than 300 schools in the San Diego area.
Breanna (California)
As the co-president of her high school’s SWENext club, Breanna has volunteered more than 100 hours with SWE and is dedicated to empowering girls in STEM. She led her school’s first STEM Week, organized a global hackathon with 75 participants from eight countries, and developed STEM lessons for nearly 100 students at local elementary schools. She was awarded the SWE STEM in Action and the National Center for Women & Information Technology Regional Honorable Mention for her efforts. Outside of SWENext, Breanna enjoys participating in hackathons and app challenges to further her interest in web/app development, earning her a Technovation 2023 Quarterfinalist Award and Special Recognition in the 2023 Congressional App Challenge.
Emma (California)
This year, Emma (Emmie) is leading her school’s SWENext club as its president, helping to organize an annual hackathon that brings together students from across San Diego County. A dedicated volunteer at SWE San Diego outreach events, Emmie was also a speaker at this year’s Girls in STEM Inspiration Day, addressing more than 120 attendees as a role model. Emmie also moderated this year’s College Decision Webinar, featuring several SWE college students and alumni from around the country. In addition to her work with SWE, Emmie interned at a nearby university last year to apply convolutional neural networks and machine learning to denoising the results of a form of image analysis called differential dynamic microscopy. She is the founder of an international nonprofit that works to highlight interdisciplinary opportunities in data science for high school students. Emmie’s commitment to mentoring students in various STEM subjects earned her the National Center for Women & Information Technology National Honorable Mention in 2023 and 2024, as well as the SWENext STEM in Action Award in 2024.
Eniola (Maryland)
In her data science internship, Eniola is creating a tool to identify U.S. communities and individuals at significant risk for co-exposure to extreme heat and poor air quality. Her mobile app also seeks to improve risk communications and connect people to solutions. She developed a framework for identifying potential data sources and acquired the data layers needed, wrote software code to explore and visualize the data, determined the best tools for creating a responsive app, and created a prototype. Eniola has served as a SWENext Influencer and was part of the SWENext High School Leadership Academy, which guided her toward her future path in STEM. Conversations with influential women engineers led her to seek a leadership position in her local Girls Who Code club. Eniola is also an active member of the National Honor Society, especially its peer-to-peer committee for high school mentoring; the Science National Honor Society, planning science-themed student events; and the Army Educational Outreach Program Alumni Council, serving on its leadership and awards committee.
Lily (California)
Lily, an aspiring game designer, is committed to promoting STEM education, particularly for underrepresented groups. She is continually working toward her goals through her contributions with SiSTEM, a nonprofit organization she co-founded. She has made countless contributions as a third-year media director for the FIRST Robotics Competition team TitanBot 2543, where she has played a pivotal role in amplifying the team’s achievements and inspiring the next generation of robotics enthusiasts. She established a cohesive visual brand to create a professional, recognizable aesthetic that makes the team’s content more visually appealing and memorable. Lily is also a third-year leader in her SWENext club, where she is the president for the 2024-2025 school year. She has made numerous connections through her volunteer work with SWE San Diego, having volunteered at more than 15 events in the past year.
Saanvi (Washington)
Saanvi created her school’s first SWENext club and has served as its president for the past two years. Last year, she was selected to be a University of Washington Changemaker in Computing and won the National Center for Women & Information Technology Aspirations in Computing award at the regional and state level. She intends to pursue electrical and computer engineering in college and beyond, specifically with the purpose of building innovative technological solutions for social good.
