Kayla Ahr is the Interim Director of the Denver Science Fair and has been with the fair since 2018. She is currently a first-year PhD student at the University of Colorado Denver, where she recently completed her MA in Sociology. Kayla found her passion for academic and scientific outreach through her extensive experience in Problem Based Learning and strongly values cross-disciplinary research and the importance properly communicated science has in shaping our future. This appreciation has driven her career path in working to develop STEM pipeline programs to support future generations of socially informed researchers.