In October 2024, I stood before MLH judges at the AI@ATL Hackathon, presenting our team's work on AI safety assessment. As one of the few women in the room, I explained how we evaluated privacy reasoning capabilities across AI models. Recognizing that models are increasingly being fed sensitive and confidential data, the hackathon-created benchmark aimed to bring to light possible vulnerabilities in current LLM’s reasoning when it came to disclosing private information. Winning the AI Safety track of the hackathon strengthened my core belief in pursuing a unique path in tech combining policy, and ethical concerns with technical expertise. My path in tech began in my small home town near Madrid, where I was the only girl in our local coding club. What started with Scratch soon grew into something bigger. I built my knowledge in high-level programming languages, helped in our weekly meetings by mentoring younger students, and did outreach by leading workshops at rural primary schools. I fell in love with the applicability of technology feeling empowered through the knowledge I was developing. Through this early leadership experience, I learned the importance of various perspectives. Soon the club became a much more diverse community where students from all backgrounds could learn to code and later pursue a computer science career. I went on to pursue the last two years of high school in an international school in Tel Aviv. Supported by a scholarship, I followed the rigorous IB diploma graduating with a 43/45 and receiving 7/7 in Computer Science. I also led the robotics software section, implementing Java for computer vision and path planning. I made sure the club became an inclusive community achieving a 50-50% ratio of members who identified as male and members who identified as female or non-conforming. Our team performed exceptionally placing top 10 in the country’s FTC competition and winning a qualifying competition as well as a design prize. Today, as a Hispanic woman maintaining a 4.0 GPA in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, I strive to combine technical knowledge with broader societal impact, through my classes and my extracurricular activities. This spring I will join the 2025 AI Safety Fellowship where I will dive deep into critical areas like reward misalignment, scalable oversight, and interpretability. This curriculum developed by experts from OpenAI and Cambridge will allow me and my cohort to research how to ensure AI systems remain aligned with human values as they become more powerful. Combined with my minor in Law, Science, and Technology, I look forward to using my undergrad experience to explore AI containment and digital rights, as these crucial issues significantly affect marginalized communities. I am also involved in SuperComputing@GT, where I am learning CUDA/C++ for parallel computing. Parallel computing is essential for time and energy-efficient computing. Energy-efficiency will become increasingly relevant as new AI developments become more power-hungry. Furthermore, I am also engaged with robotics at Georgia Tech through RoboJackets which competes in RoboCup - a soccer robotics competition. I am currently working on path planning with C++ and ROS2 for our penalty shooting sequence. The Lyndsey Scott Coding+ Scholarship would empower me to continue breaking barriers and creating pathways for others who don't see themselves represented in tech. I truly believe in the transformative nature of technology, but to ensure its inclusivity and safety, proper regulation is essential; that is the path I dream of pursuing and I am working towards it in my undergrad. By merging technical expertise with ethical and policy concerns, I aim to ensure coding truly serves everyone.