I attribute my passion for STEM to my Philadelphia beginnings. Early on in high school, I had my first research position as an apprentice at a robotics lab at University of Pennsylvania. I implemented Python and knowledge of neural networks to program the arms of a humanoid robot. In my senior year of high school, I worked with a professor at Penn Medicine to conduct surveys and data analysis for a research paper about Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors. Now that I’ve worked as a lab assistant at a Physics/Biomedical Lab at Penn, I’ve worked in a nanofabrication cleanroom to fabricate Field Effect Transistors. As a laboratory assistant, I collaborate with Ph.D. and graduate students with nanomaterial fabrication and applications and collect data from graphene experiments for biosensing HIV and vapor-sensing prostate cancer research publications. I'm looking to represent latinx STEM pre-professionals in research or industry jobs that are open to implementing my experiences in research collaborations and computer science.