Ananya Karthik is a junior at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, CA, and a 2016 SAILORS alumna. As the co-founder of creAIte, she and her teammates organized the first AI+Art workshop for girls. Ananya was a 2017 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Affiliate Award Recipient, and she enjoys mentoring middle-school girls through the Girls Who Code program. She has participated in scientific research since middle school; recently, she worked on developing Python code for applications in astronomy. When not doing something STEM-related, Ananya enjoys creating art, writing, rock climbing, and dancing.