Abia Zahir is a student attending Virginia Tech studying Computational Modeling and Data Analytics with minors in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Entrepreneurship. Since 2015, she has been a member of the STEM Impressionists Program (SIP), a non-profit organization that supports minority girls in exploring STEM.In school, Zahir was the vice-president for the ‘Just World Interact Club,’ which aims to promote multicultural understanding and advocate for social issues through food, games, presentations by invited guest speakers.As well, she has taken part in multiple SIP activities from judging the VEX IQ/EDR competitions at regionals and state, crafting and presenting at the Scratch Conference 2018- a technology seminar for teachers and educators held at MIT, and the ACTE 2018 conference for educators in Washington D.C.Abia was recognized for pursuits in technology and has been awarded the 2020 NCWIT Virginia Affiliate Honorable Mention Award and the 2021 NCWIT National Honorable Mention Award for Aspirations in Computing. In addition, Zahir has received the 2021 Amazon Future Engineer $40,000 scholarship and has recently completed an internship with Jane Street’s Unboxed Program over the summer.