Everyone deserves to be equally educated and have a better chance of enjoying school. We’re going to be constantly learning new things. This will make learning new things a little bit easier."

Halle Allen

I want to ensure that healthcare funds are spent in a way that prioritizes the needs and interests of the people, and work towards the optimization of healthcare that is efficient, accessible and equitable, especially for communities of color, the homeless and low-income families."

Eliana Amanuel

I plan on starting a series of workshops to virtually teach business owners and professionals worldwide how to connect their ideas into reality."

Neil Azimi

It is imperative that we maximize opportunities to encourage education in STEM fields."

Bradley Bennett

It is my goal to positively impact the world by innovating and developing new technologies that enhance the field. Making computer science and STEM more cost-efficient and accessible leads to a healthier, more convenient and more connected place for everyone."

Xavier Dargan

By finding ways to transform data to be usable and easily understandable, I can help improve daily routines, find flaws in certain systems and help businesses improve their products."

Chiara Harsojo

It is now more important than ever to help our environment. Neglecting to help affects our surroundings and our communities, creating disasters such as wildfires and droughts that are all too common in Southern California."

Valerie Henriquez

With my love for mathematics, I might be able to produce equipment that will predict future weather patterns and give more accurate information on what is to come."

Rodlyn Hume-Dawson

My pursuit of applying cybersecurity skills to help build a more resistant society is just beginning, and I’m excited to protect my community from this evolving danger."

Rhea Jethvani

With my college education, I aspire to develop a mass-producible alternative fuel vehicle that is practical in size and range and globally affordable."

Dennis Lee

When I see machine learning used everywhere, from designing 3D-printed organs to optimizing solar panel designs, I see the potential in the field, and I can’t wait to understand it even better."

Eric C Lee

I hope to enhance my knowledge in programming elaborate human networks to globalize technology to underserved areas and participate in a broad engineering program, innovating new project ideas with everyone."

Eric S Lee

To me, computer science is a platform to assist and improve biological limitations. It’s reasons like this that make me invested in assistive technology, and it’s why I must advance my education to grow and nurture my ability to help others."

Jennifer Lee

The idea of projecting live images on a screen has become almost wireless. Therefore, I wonder about the potential of bypassing the eyes and connecting directly to the visual cortex, allowing the brain to see. I find this potential extremely exciting, and I want to create a device that achieves this goal so that my grandfather can not only feel my love for him through my hugs and words but through my expressions too."

Joseph Lee

With artificial intelligence, we can create robots to do the jobs considered dangerous, so people don’t have to. My ambition is never to stop learning and innovating to help serve others better."

Fernando Matias

I want to serve those marginalized and underrepresented communities because I feel those are the communities that have felt lost, especially during this pandemic."

Jonathan Morales

I plan to pursue a career in a field as competitive as STEM to hopefully be a role model and encourage other students that we have the power to overcome and challenge the stigmas surrounding our community."

Daisy Nayotl

My efforts intend to alleviate environmental harm caused by technology without reducing the quality of life."

Chiagozie Okoye

If given the opportunity, as a computer science student, I plan to motivate other students, especially girls, and show them that they can accomplish anything if they set their minds to it."

Monica Pal

I can contribute to the creation and the development of these drugs that have an increased effectiveness rate, thereby increasing everyone’s life span and leading to a better quality of life. Through an exploration of chemistry, I hope to make a difference in the lives of historically underrepresented groups."

Kayla Pham

Albert Einstein served as an inspiration to help me find my passion and curiosity, and I hope to serve as an inspiration within my community to help students find their passions and curiosities."

Jesus Plata II

I want to pursue science courses in college to advance my knowledge and utilize it when uncovering the necessary innovations for cancer treatment."

Kevin Robles

I look forward to making the protection of our Earth’s environment a central role of my college education and my future career to help my community and beyond."

Fallon Rowerdink

I hope to advance my skills and achieve a degree in applied mathematics to ensure the safety of children and young adults."

Jimmy Salvador-Contreras

My aspiration is to one day create or work with an organization that provides marginalized K-12 students with information regarding potential STEM careers."

Abigail Samson

My major goal in life is to fight against climate change, and I believe electrical engineering is my key in doing just that, specifically power electronics. I want to modernize our power grid to accommodate more green energy."

Luis Sanchez

I want to become a mechanical engineer to inspire other future generations of women to see STEM fields as a place for them too."

Charlotte Sinclair

Engineering has molded our civilization, and I want to contribute by using my abilities to discover solutions to our current problems."

Jamilex Soto

I believe every individual should have access to high-quality care. I want to develop a program that creates wheelchairs, hearing aids, canes, walkers, prosthetics and many more assistance devices. I hope this program can start here in my community and eventually spread across the nation and even internationally to other financially limited communities."

Mitchell Velasco

I plan to address the challenge of human space travel by discovering new ways to make space flight more efficient. By overcoming this, we could potentially improve the trajectory of our lives by leaps and bounds and even revolutionize science and technology with newer discoveries in space."

Jason Yuan