Biosketch Ellery McDaniel is a rising senior at Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. She hopes to be an astrophysicist with a specialty in computer engineering and is the captain of her FIRST Robotics team, president of her school's Girls Who Code club, and president/founder of Lamar's astronomy club. Ellery is very interested in engineering and programming nanorobots to perform neurotechnological tasks. In her free time, Ellery does choir and ballet.