Azra Zeren Emekci is a senior at Pioneer High School in San Jose, California. Azra is the president and founder of the Slay The Day Squad club where she creates a safe space for students to set goals together, becoming each other’s accountability buddies. Outside of school, Azra is a devoted Girl Scout and is active through her roles as Delegate-at-Large, Youth Board Participant, and Lead The Way Planning Committee member. Azra plays the Turkish Kanun to connect to her roots and performs solos. Through holding various leadership positions, she’s realized that young girls are not empowered enough in the STEM field, so she founded the CodeSisters Club, to instill a passion for STEM in young intellectuals. She teaches computer programming in multiple mosques to girls in grades 4-6. This journey led her to Stanford for a Bioinformatics certificate and later, to NASA, where she dove into the fascinating realm of omics data. She has published research papers and is working on bioinformatic research projects using the skills she acquired. Azra was inspired by Miss CEO’s guidance in middle school and decided to join Miss CEO in high school. Azra is very hyped to be returning again this year!