Pooja D.

Pooja is a high school junior, programmer, and Medical Health International Youth Delegate from Valdosta, Georgia. In 2019 and 2020, her and her robotics team qualified for the VEX IQ World Championships. In the 2022-2023 VEX VRC robotics season, her team qualified for the Georgia State Championship. In her free time, she likes completing online programming challenges, reading fantasy novels, and building robots in her high school's tech lab. Pooja is an active member of VEX Robotics and the Technology Student Association (TSA), and she wants to use her experiences with programming to gain a master's degree in computer science and become an autonomous navigation programmer.