Anna Nixon serves as manager of the Synthesis team at Autodesk, leading high school interns building a virtual robot simulator. She is software lead and vice president of her high school robotics team, having started her own robotics team in middle school.

Anna built an interactive stuffed animal with voice recognition and face detection, and a smart water meter—projects recognized by the Ant-Man Microtech Challenge, MIT Think, and the Junior Humanities and Science Symposium. She has participated in FIRST Robotics since elementary school.

Anna speaks on robotics, STEM education, and young leadership.