Ava DeLaGarza
College of Information Science & Technology
Ava DeLaGarza (she/her/ella) will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and Spanish, with a minor in mathematics. During her time at UNO, she completed internships with Omaha Public Schools, the Nebraska Defense Resource Corporation, and most recently, the W. M. Keck Observatory.
She also collaborated with the Malone Center nonprofit in Lincoln, providing solutions for patient and grant management systems to support the local BIPOC community. For the past four years, she has worked as an afterschool iSTEM teacher, introducing elementary and middle school students to the world of computer science and STEM.
She currently serves as the treasurer of the Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honor Society. After graduation, she will be relocating to Hawai’i to join the Scientific Software Engineering Team at the W. M. Keck Observatory.
