Tara M. Pattilachan is a high school senior from Tampa, Florida, at Steinbrenner High School. She is passionate about neuroscience, virtual reality and AI, and has been awarded several accolades from Scholastics Arts and Writing, PTA Reflections awards in literature, winning state Brain Bees, and has published her writing in the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and TSP, amongst others. She is currently in the process of publishing her own book, runs her own science website (Neurologic) and does nonpro