ALT Safinah Ali stands on a walkway at the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. Credit: Courtesy of Safinah Ali

ALT A group of young people stands on the bank of a lake. One of them holds a net. A castle rises in the distance. They are students collecting dragonflies in Central Park, to conduct an analysis on dragonfly and damselfly wings. Credit: Safinah Ali

ALT A group of students has gathered around a table, which is covered in printouts and closed laptop computers. They are learning about data science methods and machine learning algorithms, and how to apply them to scientific research questions. Credit: Safinah Ali

ALT Safinah Ali stands at a podium in a lecture hall, with a large screen behind her showing a presentation. She is teaching machine learning and data science concepts to high schoolers in the SRMP program. Credit: AMNH