Emilio attended Banning High School in LAUSD, which was one of the early schools to pilot the IDS course. He was en route to taking AP Calculus, because he wanted to go into computer science, but when he heard about IDS, he signed up for it instead. Emilio was interested in coding and statistics, but his school didn’t offer those classes. Emilio won a Posse Scholarship and went on to UC Berkeley, where he took Data 8 (Foundations of Data Science). His LAUSD IDS class prepared him so well, he knew most of the material for the first half of the class. He took a total of five data science courses at UCB, and would have majored in Data Science, but the major wasn’t developed until after he got to UCB. Emilio graduated with a degree in Media Studies.