INDIA New England Information Broadcasts 20 Beneath 20 Stars Checklist for 2022
BOSTON—INDIA New England Information, one of many nation’s largest Indian-American information and video magazines serving the South Asian group, introduced the winners of its 20-Beneath-20 Stars for 2022.
The 20-Beneath-20 Stars had been chosen primarily based on their achievements, extracurricular actions, entrepreneurship, and participation in group service, in addition to distinctive abilities in writing, arts and music, amongst different components.
20 Beneath 20 Honorees for 2022
Ayush Agrawal
eleventh grade
Burlington Excessive Faculty
Ayush Agrawal, a junior, attends faculty in Burlington, MA. A sort, charming, and hardworking individual, he takes nice satisfaction within the neighborhood and tradition the place he lives and dedicated to serving to society in no matter approach he can. He provides his time and power to a lot of non-profit teams, together with Indian Individuals for Burlington, Hindi Manch, Ekal Indi-Artwork, Shishu Bharati Faculty, and Dharma Heart of America. At Hindi Manch, Agrawal makes the entire occasion movies alongside his group as a member of the Hindi Manch’s audio/visible content material administration group and has helped with the occasion’s setup for the Hindi Manch Sahitya Samhelan. For Indian Individuals for Burlington (IAB), a group group that works to satisfy the distinctive wants of the rising Indian inhabitants in Burlington, Agrawal coordinated the IAB Diwali celebration’s cubicles with the entire entrepreneurs attending a number of occasions earlier than this system day. Every enterprise proprietor’s setup was taken care of, and he made certain everybody knew what they had been promoting. He additionally devoted ten weeks to function the group coordinator for the weekly webinars on artwork for IndiArt, an annual artwork contest hosted by Ekal Vidyalya USA, with objective of elevating funds/consciousness for the digitalization of rural India, and advocating for the accessibility of training for underprivileged communities. He served on the IndiArt youth group and helped with all points of promoting and poster manufacturing for these occasions.
Other than volunteering and serving to his group, he additionally helps seniors in want. One such instance is when a senior girl needed to share her particular recipes for the world, he spent numerous hours serving to producing the movies, modifying and posting it on her channel. “He did this selflessly and with an enormous smile,” stated one among Agrawal’s nominators for the 2022 20-Beneath-20, recounting the story.
Agrawal can also be a passionate member of his faculty’s DECA (Distributive Schooling Golf equipment of America) group. DECA prepares rising leaders and entrepreneurs in advertising, finance, hospitality and administration in excessive faculties and faculties across the globe. Agrawal competed on the district stage by means of the ninth and tenth grades- within the particular person rules of promoting class within the ninth grade, and the person sports activities and leisure class within the tenth grade. He needed to focus on a specific roleplay for this competitors in entrance of judges chosen by the district who can be assigned to him and the opposite contestants in that division. He was one among a choose few chosen to steer DECA at Burlington Excessive Faculty as a junior. Due to his place, he’s liable for mentoring and welcoming DECA’s latest members.
Moreover, Agrawal performs cricket within the 2022 Merrimack Cricket League T20 season.
Neha Chandra Agarwal
Sophomore
Dartmouth Faculty
A graduate summa cum laude from the distinguished Groton Faculty and a Wellesley Faculty E-book Award (2019) recipient, Neha Agarwal was capable of safe Presidential Scholarship for a Analysis Assistantship designing a analysis examine to find out intervention alternatives in state-level coverage to enhance the well being outcomes of Asian immigrants, post-pandemic. At Dartmouth, Neha is energetic in her group as Vice President of Range & Inclusion in Alpha Phi Worldwide Fraternity, the social media supervisor of Dartmouth’s premier South Asian dance group, RAAZ and a writing tutor. She has additionally served as a youth ambassador for Akshaya Patra in Middlesex County.
Arindam Bagga
twelfth grade
Lexington Excessive Faculty
A gifted scholar with a eager curiosity in genetics and drugs, Arindam Bagga is a 2021 Harvard Telemed Medical Program Scholarship recipient, and has carried out analysis in a number of fields, together with Gaucher’s Illness Sort 1, immunology and even AI prognosis of colon most cancers. His analysis beneath his mentor on CRISPR-Cas9 programs for the therapy of Gaucher’s Illness Sort 1, which was printed on the American Chemical Society (ACS), has gained recognition at analysis competitions on each the native and nationwide ranges. Bagga’s summary and poster for “Designing a CRISPR-Cas9 Information RNA system to Remove Antibiotic Resistance in E.coli DH10B Bacterial Cells; 2022” was printed and chosen to be introduced on the ACS Worldwide Symposium.
Bagga was admitted to the ACC Younger Students Program, a prestigious cardiology program. He’s conducting analysis there on how environmental components have an effect on coronary heart mortality charges in the US, in addition to amassing and operating statistical evaluation on related CDC knowledge and dealing in the direction of writing an summary for the ACC convention in 2022.
Exterior of the ACC Younger Students Program, Bagga can also be conducting statistical evaluation on COVID-19 sufferers utilizing Excel and Prism; working in the direction of discovering patterns, analyzing knowledge and writing report on his findings. He additionally labored on a database of genes to create therapeutics for diabetic wound therapeutic; and picked up knowledge on AI diagnoses of colon most cancers.
At his faculty, Bagga based the Biology Membership, educating ideas associated to Biology each week to coach its members for the US Biology Olympiad Competitors. He’s additionally Well being Occupations College students Of America VP, and studied for the Cultural Range and Disparities occasion, the place he ranked first in Massachusetts in the identical occasion and certified for the international-level competitors. As a varisty tennis athlete, Bagga was featured within the Boston Globe Boys’ Varsity All-Stars.
Krish Bhuva
twelfth grade
Shrewsbury Excessive Faculty
As an actor and mannequin represented by AWA & BTM, LA, Krish Bhuva has appeared in lots of commercials, voiceovers, collection, and movies. A few of commercials that he appeared in (which had been aired nationally and internationally) embody Bose, Apple, Medical doctors with out Borders, E.O.S, Hasbro and Brainly, and he seems within the Hulu collection “Fort Rocks”. Bhuva additionally had a precept position as a center schooler within the Sundance Labs, LA characteristic movie “Selaah and The Spades”, which is on the market to look at on Amazon Prime. Bhuva is the founding father of a 501(c)(3) charitable group, Pan Reformica, which educates and raises funds to supply reduction companies to ongoing human rights points across the globe, working collaboratively to determine assist, employed novel concepts, and dealt with administrative duties. Following the group’s formation, Bhuva was invited by his highschool to start out a Pan Refromica chapter as a ‘membership’, which was began within the 2022 fall semester and can create many volunteer alternatives for his friends.
Exterior of his work as an actor, Bhuva is keen about aerospace engineering and has channeled his focus to make his mark on the sphere. After studying analysis papers and emailing the authors within the hopes of creating scientific contributions himself, Bhuva discovered work as a analysis intern on the Institute for Astrophysical Analysis at Boston College beneath the supervision of Dr. Thushara G.S. Pillai (astrophysicist, analysis scientist, MIT Haystack Observatory) to interpret and analyze magnetic area knowledge of the Orion Molecular Cloud from the SOFIA telescope, in addition to using the AstroPy package deal in a Python coding surroundings.
Sanah Chatiwala
twelfth grade
Westford Academy
Sanah Chatiwala is a determine skater who has been training the game since she was a baby of 5 and has gained a number of synchronized skating championships by means of Colonial Determine Skating Membership. Not content material with being a superb scholar with a 4.34 GPA at Westford Academy, she can also be a varsity volleyball participant for her faculty’s group. All by means of the pandemic, Chatiwala volunteered with Say Da Nar group, the place she tutored Burmese refugee kids in English and different topics. In 2022, Chatiwala volunteered at I Can Shine Bike camp, which teaches particular wants kids of all ages the best way to trip a motorbike, the place she additionally managed over 100 volunteers and 40 campers. This included organizing their time slots, what days who may are available in, and many others. Fundraising for Saheli, a corporation that helps South Asian ladies battle home and sexual abuse, Chatiwala organized a Chaat Masala occasion, which bought out and raised over $1,000 in donations, bringing cultural consciousness to Westford Academy and gave a platform for youngsters of Indian origin to come back collectively and present their tradition with dwell Indian music, henna, Indian meals and stalls of Indian clothes and jewellery. The varsity administration was so happy with this occasion that it grew to become an annual occasion at WA.
Kunal Chauhan
tenth grade
Shrewsbury Excessive Faculty
Kunal Chauhan is a rising sophomore at Shrewsbury Excessive Faculty in Shrewsbury, MA, with an avid curiosity in robotics and continued dedication in the direction of mentoring these youthful than him. As an energetic and passionate member of his faculty group, he’s at present serving his second yr as a member of his faculty’s elected Pupil Council. Being a member of this council, he’s not solely accountable for representing the coed physique and his faculty, however can also be liable for planning actions in his group. Elevating over $1,000 to assist fund analysis for the Massachusetts Breast Most cancers Coalition (MBCC), internet hosting an annual thanksgiving & winter clothes drive, and taking part within the annual Shrewsbury City Clear-up Day are solely a handful of the quite a few community-based tasks that Chauhan helps facilitates as part of this council. Together with this, he additionally takes different management roles in his faculty group, whether or not that be his position because the Secretary of the Bio-Tech Membership or his position as Vice-President of the Engineering Membership. Chauhan has at all times been energetic in his group, and because the pandemic began, his ardour for volunteering in his group has grown much more. The pandemic induced every little thing to close down in our world, however with this, got here the chance to show & study in a complete new digital house. From a younger age, Chauhan has been drawn to robotics & engineering, which has been proven in his 4 years of FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and his second-place Robotic Design award on the state championship held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Desirous to impart his information onto others, whereas making an attempt to make the perfect of an terrible scenario, he carried out a web based LEGO robotics summer season camp for youths in-and-around his neighborhood who didn’t have the power to study these robots in-person, educating for roughly 40 hours over the span of three weeks. Persevering with with this ardour, he started educating extra on-line packages by means of ISW (India Society of Worcester) — a non-profit group group that’s run solely by volunteers. This included providing three ten-week on-line LEGO Robotics programs to roughly 50 college students in-and-around central Massachusetts, cumulating a complete of 75+ hours of group service by means of these 8 months. Not limiting himself to solely robotics, he additionally taught core topics, akin to Math & English, remotely to youthful children in the course of the pandemic. Along with this, the unjust assault on Ukraine has induced over 12 million individuals to flee their home-country. Wanting to point out no matter assist he may for Ukraine, Chauhan and a gaggle of scholars helped lead a bake-sale by means of ISW, and within the matter of two days, raised over $600 to donate to Ukraine Reduction Efforts. Chauhan’s contribution to his group has been immense, and for this work, is a 2-time recipient of the Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) and a Dedication to Service Award recipient in recognition of 75+ hours of service in a single faculty yr.
Rishi S. Gokhale
tenth grade
East Greenwich Excessive Faculty
Rishi Gokhale is a rising sophomore scholar at East Greenwich Excessive Faculty, and a recipient of the US President’s Schooling Award in 2021. In his freshman yr, he engaged in self-study to take the AP examination in US Historical past and bought the highest rating of 5. Gokhale has been the varsity champion for Geography Bee and represented his faculty twice on the state stage Geography Bee organized by the Nationwide Geographic Society. He has additionally participated in varied Bees, Olympiads and Bowls organized by the Worldwide Tutorial Competitions (IAC) and acquired varied awards and recognitions. On April 6, 2019, Gokhale gained the Boston Regional Remaining Championships in Historical past Bee, Geography Bee, Science Bee and Tutorial Bee with a primary place end in all Bees amongst sixth graders from most of New England area. He then traveled to Chicago for the national-level championships, the place he positioned as Nationwide Semifinalist within the US Tutorial Bee, Nationwide Semifinalist within the Nationwide Science Bee, Nationwide Quarterfinalist within the Nationwide Historical past Bee and completed twelfth nationally within the US Geography Olympiad. Based mostly on his efficiency on the nationwide championships, Gokhale certified to compete within the Biennial World Championship for Worldwide Geography Bee and Worldwide Historical past Bee (to compete with chosen certified candidates from 30 international locations world wide), which had been sadly cancelled because of the pandemic. In 2021, Gokhale was additionally a US Historical past Bee Nationwide Championship Semifinalist. On April ninth 2022, Gokhale acquired an award from The Naval Order of the US on the Rhode Island Historical past Day Competitors within the Senior Division, for his paper associated to US Naval Historical past, titled “Little Remembrance Regardless of Nice Toil – The Forgotten Story of the Treaty of Portsmouth” In 2018, Gokhale acquired a Quotation from the Speaker of the Rhode Island Home of Representatives for his essay on the which means of Mahatma Gandhi’s quote “An eye fixed for an eye fixed will make the entire world blind” which gained the primary prize. In April 2022, Gokhale’s oil portray “Hidden Waterways – Venice” was chosen for entry into the Congressional Artwork Competitors for Excessive Faculty college students. It was on show on the Warwick Mall for per week till April twenty fifth. For this portray, Gokhale acquired a certificates from the retiring US Congressman James Langevin.
In 2018, after visiting Longyearbyen, Svalbard, which is roughly 800 miles from the North Pole, Gokhale’s article on his go to was printed in Icepeople (www.icepeople.internet), the Earth’s northernmost newspaper. Gokhale quickly discovered concerning the extreme hardships suffered by Mr. Mark Sabbatini, the reporter, photographer, editor, and writer of Icepeople and discovered that Icepeople was on the verge of closing down because of this. Decided to not let Icepeople fail, Gokhale began a GoFundMe marketing campaign to avoid wasting the Earth’s Northernmost Newspaper. Gokhale’s marketing campaign has raised greater than $20,500 for that newspaper and has helped present probably the most wanted respiratory room for Icepeople to get again on its ft. The story on Gokhale’s GoFundMe marketing campaign was printed within the Windfall Journal, and it was additionally talked about within the prestigious Columbia Journalism Overview.
Anuka Manghwani
twelfth grade
Lexington Excessive Faculty
Anuka is a rising senior at Lexington Excessive Faculty, who, as a sophomore, finaled within the Nationwide Economics Problem, inserting within the prime 6 out of hundreds of contributors testing information of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and present occasions. Later, in her junior yr, she participated within the Wharton International Youth Funding Competitors hosted by the College of Pennsylvania, working along with her friends to create an funding technique and portfolio. Her group was amongst a choose group of rivals chosen to current their funding technique to a distinguished panel of judges on the Wharton Faculty, the place they finally positioned within the prime 10 out of greater than 1,300 groups internationally. She is a recipient of the Nationwide AP Scholar with Distinction acknowledged for her excellent efficiency on a number of AP exams. Manghwani is deeply dedicated to civic engagement in her group. As an elected member of the varsity’s student-faculty senate and a menstruating particular person, she believed it was essential for the varsity to supply entry to female hygiene provides. She advocated for the varsity to make female hygiene merchandise accessible within the faculty bogs by speaking with nurses and the coed senate. Because it stands, the varsity can be making female hygiene merchandise accessible within the bogs this upcoming faculty yr. Moreover, Manghwani can also be a frontrunner of the varsity’s Door Portray Challenge the place college students paint college’s doorways across the faculty to advertise a way of group and enthusiasm, in addition to to foster creativity. Manghwani not too long ago organized a philosophy camp for center schoolers known as Query every little thing: An introduction to philosophy, as a way to domesticate an curiosity in philosophy and up to date politics.
Exterior of faculty, she co-founded Around the World, a corporation that goals to make world information extra accessible and supply goal journalism. Manghwani seeks to problem the idea of “international” information and as a substitute embraces information from a world perspective. Moreover, she seeks to fill the “what/why hole” in journalism (information that discusses what is going on, however not why it’s occurring). Via Around the World she goals to handle these issues by means of a bi-weekly publication that delivers transient, but descriptive journalism and makes world consciousness accessible to everybody.
Manghwani can also be working as an intern for Massachusetts State Consultant, Michelle Ciccolo and Dr. Hua Wan from Boston College, the place she is researching faculty fairness in Massachusetts as a part of her internship. She has served as a legislative intern for the Massachusetts Fee on Ladies. She labored as an intern, analyzing points impacting ladies and taking notes throughout legislative hearings. Via her internship, she aimed to deepen her understanding of the challenges ladies face in society.
Aarav & Arjun Mehta
eighth grade
Hopkinton Center Faculty
Aarav Mehta and Arjun Mehta are 13- & 11-year-old brothers who attend Hopkinton Center Faculty in Hopkinton, MA. They’re co-founders of the ARM-in-ARM Charity, which they began in Could 2020 in the course of the top of the pandemic, with a mission to attach the world’s kids by means of sports activities and academic actions by amassing new or gently-used sports activities attire, gear and academic provides to reinforce the experiences of less-fortunate kids. The charity identify “ARM” just isn’t solely the initials of their names but additionally speaks to the charity’s mission, to affix “arm in arm”, to make a distinction to kids in all places. The motivation to start out a charity got here after they travelled to Panama, Ecuador and Jordan in 2018 & 2019 and observed how native kids their ages didn’t have the suitable soccer balls, cleats and sports activities attire as they did. Throughout lockdown, once they had been dwelling with plenty of time on their palms, they determined with a bit of assist from their dad and mom to launch the charity and promote their mission by means of social media which caught the eye of the editor of the native paper, who interviewed them for an article. Inside a matter of some months, they collected over 300 gadgets of sporting tools and attire donated by households in Hopkinton and surrounding cities which they cleaned up and shipped to charities in Kenya and Tanzania that assist under-privileged kids.
What began as a small thought has now changed into an ongoing effort by each brothers to proceed to search out methods to assist kids in want by means of their charity. Most not too long ago they led a e-book drive and picked up greater than 100 books for youngsters in Kindergarten by means of fifth grade that had been shipped to varsities in India in addition to led a number of programming/coding summer season camps with proceeds from which had been donated to an area charity that helps infrastructure tasks for 450 faculties in India. Aarav and Arjun at all times remind themselves of their favourite quote when engaged on their charity: “Caring has the present of creating the extraordinary particular.” (George R. Bach)
Aashna Miharia
twelfth grade
Winchester Excessive Faculty
Aashna Miharia plans to make a profession within the journalism area and hopes to grow to be a powerful voice for ladies and an individual of coloration within the media world. A writer of center grade fiction, Miharia printed her novel, “In Their Heads”, in January of 2021. She acquired an Honorary point out on the twenty ninth Annual Author’s Digest Self-Printed E-book Award, with one of many judges remarking, “Excellently plotted and structured, this e-book takes an idea almost everybody has puzzled about and makes it a actuality for Gwen. Readers younger and previous can be riveted by Gwen’s compelling and attention-grabbing journey.”
Miharia is Managing Editor of the highschool’s month-to-month newspaper, the place she not solely writes, however is solely liable for mentoring employees writers within the course of of selecting a subject, interviewing individuals, and writing articles. She is a paid columnist for Winchester Dwelling,an area journal. In her column, Miharia shares her distinctive voice as a youngster of coloration in a predominantly white group. She can also be at present serving as an intern for Dr. Gregory Schnitzspahn, the Winchester Dwelling editor and English professor at Fisher Faculty. In the summertime of 2020, Miharia based and independently organized a voluntary summer season tutoring program known as “Learn with Aashna” to tutor 50 elementary college students in studying, to assist them develop academically in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Miharia held one-on-one Zoom classes with every scholar each week, designed personalised lesson plans, emailed backwards and forwards with dad and mom, and extra. Most of those college students had been of Indian descent as she needed to attach with children who’ve had comparable experiences as her. Miharia acquired overwhelmingly optimistic suggestions on her work in “Learn with Aashna”. Final summer season, she expanded her volunteer program to be “Learn & Write with Aashna” and applied artistic writing classes alongside studying classes. General, Miharia has now labored with over 100 college students. Many dad and mom have instructed her that because of her program, their baby bought higher at studying and writing in the course of the pandemic (whereas most children nationally digressed in studying and writing as a consequence of distant studying) and developed a ardour for it as nicely.
In summer season of 2022, Miharia was chosen as one among twenty college students out few hundred candidates to partake in GrubStreet’s YAWP Teen Summer season Writing Fellowship. This fellowship fashions a sensible, skilled surroundings for working writers as they experiment with all kinds of writing types. It was a stipend-based program and her work can be printed in an anthology in March 2023.
Anya Mittal
twelfth grade
Acton Boxborough Regional Excessive Faculty
Impressed by software program, biotech, and debate, Anya Mittal organizes free world pc science camps as President of the Acton Institute of Laptop Science, has printed biodevice analysis, and competed nationally as Debate Staff Captain. In 2021, she earned and was awarded the US Congressional Award Gold Medal, the best civilian youth award within the nation. The Congressional Award gives alternatives for younger individuals to unleash their potential by attaining private objectives centered on volunteerism, character growth, and health. This was achieved after three and a half years of private effort, together with 400 hours and 24 months of voluntary public service, 200 hours and 24 months of bodily health and an extra 200 hours of labor in the direction of private growth objectives.
Mittal additionally acquired the Tutorial All-American Award, issued by the Nationwide Speech & Debate Affiliation, which acknowledges highschool college students who’ve earned the diploma of Superior Distinction; accomplished at the least 5 semesters of highschool; demonstrated excellent character and management; and earned a GPA of three.7 on a 4.0 scale (or its equal).
Mittal’s curiosity in pc programming began in grade 6. She is a self-taught Java programmer from codeacademy.org. She would spend hours coding and attempting to resolve an issue. She liked it a lot that in the course of the COVID pandemic lockdown, she taught herself JavaScript and have become a licensed JavaScript developer. As she entered highschool, she grew to become an teacher on the Acton Institute of Laptop Science, a non-profit institute educating programming to center and highschool college students without spending a dime, began by different Acton Boxborough Regional Excessive Faculty college students. The group quickly grew to become a big non-profit entity with enrollment not solely from Massachusetts or the US, however internationally as nicely. Beginning as an teacher, and after a yr, the top of the Java division, Mittal was being requested to design curriculums, deal with operations and administrative work as nicely. As she was coming into her junior yr, she was requested to grow to be the Co-President of the Institute along with her duties as the top of the Java division. The Acton Institute of Laptop Science has organized free pc science camps for over 2,000 college students from internationally and raised over $10,000 in donations.
Tarun Nagesh
twelfth grade
Boston Latin Faculty
Tarun Nagesh is a licensed tax preparer by the Inner Income Service, and makes use of his information and abilities as a volunteer within the Volunteer Earnings Tax Help (VITA) Program for the final 3 years. The VITA program helps low to reasonable revenue taxpayers to file their federal and state tax returns. His friends on the program famous his good character and disposition is a good asset for this system, remarking, “[Nagesh] is a priceless member of our VITA program, he helps taxpayers year-round, not solely in the course of the tax season.”
Prisha Nair
eighth grade
Oak Center Faculty
A black belt in Karate at 11 years previous, Prisha Nair is continuous in the direction of the primary diploma now. She was honored with an Wonderful achievement in Math for seventh grade at college in 2022, in addition to within the Math Olympiad prime 50%. Nair is a member of the coed council, an India Society of Worchester (ISW) youth member and was the 2018 1st place winner within the Worchester bowling competitors.
Ishita Rai
Junior
Boston College
Ishita Rai is at present a rising Junior pursuing a Bachelor in Human Physiology on the Sargent Faculty of Well being & Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston College (BU). She was chosen amongst a choose group of friends to grow to be a 2020 United States Presidential Scholar, one of many 161 finalists chosen from the three.6 million highschool seniors throughout the nation, and can also be a member of the Nationwide Society of Collegiate Students. She has been accepted to the Boston College Faculty of Medication as a part of BU’s very aggressive Early Assurance Program. Rai is an especially passionate, pushed, and empathetic one who has a confirmed monitor file of educational excellence, group management, and analysis expertise. She believes in taking challenges, studying, rising, and giving again to the group. Rai has pursued analysis on the impact of multi-drug resistant pneumonia within the mortality of trauma sufferers with mentors at Brown College and efficiently printed the analysis paper as the primary writer within the medical journal Surgical Infections (Jan 2020). Rai has introduced analysis on the consequences of telehealth on postpartum despair assist at a famend worldwide convention with Dr. Meghan Sharp on the forty third Annual Assembly & Scientific Periods of the Society of Behavioral Medication and was a 2022 Provost’s Scholar Award for Tutorial Exploration and Valedictorian for the graduating Class of 2020 at St. Mary Academy Bay View. She was the recipient of the Catherine McCauley Lady of the Yr Award, probably the most prestigious honor given by Bay View Academy to a graduating senior “of singular character and impeccable integrity who leaves an indelible imprint on the material of the Bay View group.”
Rai was the Director of Schooling for the BU American Lung Most cancers Screening Initiative, main a group of over 30 individuals and creating initiatives to strengthen the lung care curriculum at BUSM in addition to native center and excessive faculties. Not stopping at only one trigger, she was the founder and president of her faculty’s chapter of Imaginative and prescient Membership. The Imaginative and prescient Membership is affiliated with Harvard College, by means of which consciousness and cash for low-income households in want of eye care is raised by members by means of organized eyeglass drives, fundraisers, and deliberate occasions – all of which funded over 15 cataract surgical procedures and offered over 100 households with prescription glasses. Apart from all these achievements, Rai works as a Scientific Analysis Assistant at The Warren Alpert Medical Faculty, Windfall VA Medical Heart, and Boston College Medical Heart; as a Disaster Counselor at Disaster Textline, offering disaster intervention, suicide prevention, and assist counseling to these dealing with an emotional disaster; transcribes fashionable scientific analysis into laymen’s phrases for the general public, elevating consciousness, and researching preventative strategies for power illness with the CIEPA Nationwide Analysis Staff; and works on analysis on the SURGE Lab at Brown College lab relating to racial disparity in healthcare.
Aanya Sachdeva
twelfth grade
Shrewsbury Excessive Faculty
Described as “artistic, caring, and relentless”, Aanya Sachdeva is a rising senior at Shrewsbury Excessive Faculty. On the younger age of 11, Sachdeva had the chance to witness the distinction that Alex’s Lemonade Stand Basis (ALSF), a non-profit group, has made within the lives of kids combating most cancers. Upon studying what an impression one hour of analysis may make within the lives of these combating most cancers, she discovered her ardour and dedicated herself to the trigger. She based Aanya’s BOWtique, an entrepreneurial enterprise the place she used her creativity to hand-make hair bows and equipment to promote at native gala’s and craft reveals. Regardless of her younger age, she donated all proceeds to ALSF. She additionally launched a web site for individuals to donate on to her fundraiser.
When the pandemic struck in 2020 and all native craft gala’s abruptly halted, she realized her aim of serving to kids battle most cancers was at stake and pivoted to launch Aanya’s BOWtique on-line through Etsy and continued spreading her assist for ALSF. To this date, she has raised over $15,000. In recognition of her beneficiant efforts, the ALSF basis rewarded her with the “High Fundraiser Award” for 2021.
Amirtha Santhosh
twelfth grade
Lakeville Excessive Faculty
Amirtha Santhosh developed her pursuits out and in of the classroom all by means of her highschool. Academically, along with being on the excessive honor roll every quarter, she has taken a number of honors and AP programs, culminating in Bausch and Lomb Scholarship and AP Scholar Award in addition to changing into a member of the Nationwide Honor Society. She furthered her research by means of the Boston College Summer season Problem program, the place she developed information in biology on a deeper stage by means of the programs Chemistry in Medication and Infectious Illnesses. As a part of the highest 1% of scholar of her faculty, and because the solely Indian lady in her grade, Santosh has taken full benefit of the educational alternatives introduced to her. Santosh is giving again by volunteering her time at a tennis camp as an teacher and was capable of help college students in furthering their tennis abilities and growing their ardour for the game. She is a member of her faculty’s LIFE Membership, the place they foster new relationships between the membership members, college students, and college students with disabilities. As well as, she is part of Laker Leaders, the place college students from all grades attempt to assist out the varsity group by means of varied occasions. Exterior of faculty, she has volunteered at an area meals pantry, sorting meals donations, bagging gadgets in preparation for delivering them to prospects, and filling buyer meals baggage for them to take dwelling.
Santosh is interested by exploring the medical area and moreover to the superior programs in sciences, and summer season packages at universities, she has volunteered at an area hospital within the surgical procedure division the place she shares hospital rooms, cleans and makes beds, presents sufferers drinks and snacks, and brings them out to their household post-operation, and thus gaining first-hand expertise within the medical area.
Arshia Sharma
eleventh grade
Brooks Faculty
For the previous two years in the summertime, Arshia Sharma has been volunteering and documenting the life of ladies of her age within the distant area of Yamkeshwar, a village in Uttaranchal beneath an AIF grant program, the place she additionally made a go to this yr. Her motivation was pushed by a want to place herself in different individuals’s sneakers, view the problems from a brand new perspective, and acquire a clearer sense of the difficulty of poverty and training from all angles. All year long, Sharma demonstrated this openness to and empathy for the opinions, emotions, and views of those women and their way of life which was very totally different from hers.
Sharma additionally represented her faculty on the Mannequin UN and introduced on the United Nations the place she spoke on the subject ‘nuclear weapons within the Center East’. She is a scholar of Kathak of 10 years, and was one of many 4 finalists of the annual Wilder Talking contest out of the 300 college students who participated at her faculty.
Ria Dang Sharma
twelfth Grade
Dana Corridor Faculty
Ria Dang Sharma is a senior at Dana Corridor Faculty with pursuits in mind analysis, mindfulness, scholar authorities, squash and music. Sharma has been doing mind imaging analysis for 3 years and is a co-author on two printed papers and the first-author on a paper at present in draft. Enthusiastic about singing, Sharma was chosen to be a part of the vocal Chamber Singers group and likewise takes half in gospel choir and learning Indian classical vocals. Ria has been acknowledged for her execution, genuineness and empathy as a frontrunner. She is the elected All-Faculty President, in addition to the Co-Captain of Varsity Squash. She served on the Pupil Council for 2 years and was a Peer Schooling Chief. Sharma acquired the 2022 Dragon Award for Management in Sports activities, gained the Class of 2023 Management Award voted by college students and chosen by the Deans of College students and is a 2022 US Squash Scholar Athlete. Sharma serves because the Group Service Vice President of the Indian American Youth Group, and is a Saheli Fellow.
Sharma is fascinated by the ability of the Indian artwork of mindfulness, and its position in bettering psychological well being. She remodeled a room at Dana Corridor Faculty into a preferred mindfulness and meditation room, self-taught herself yoga and designed a journal. For her efforts, she gained the 2022 Fitzie Basis Award, which grants her $6,000 to review yoga and meditation in Rishikesh, India. The Fitzie Basis selects one lady every from Dana Corridor, Tenacre, Harvard-Radcliffe Faculty and Harvard Enterprise Faculty who present qualities of management together with a way of journey. She was additionally a finalist for the John Means Spencer Award. As a particular Peer Schooling chief, she suggested a cohort of fifteen women on psychological well being and teenage points.
Vedant M. Srinivas
eleventh grade
Eastlake Excessive Faculty (Sammamish, WA)
Vedant Srinivas has created an invention with the noble intention of decreasing (and probably eliminating) roadkill. His invention is an AI-powered system known as Eqwis. Eqwis combines a twin stream digicam (optical and thermal) for each day and nighttime imaginative and prescient, with an artificial-intelligence-based pc imaginative and prescient mannequin (YOLO-v5) that may allow real-time detection and classification of shifting objects, together with animals. This invention has introduced Srinivas recognition, together with first place for the ‘Environmental Engineering’ class on the Regeneron Worldwide Science and Engineering Honest (ISEF), and a characteristic on Inside Version. Eqwis has garnered curiosity from each the state of the California and the state of Nevada’s Registries of Motor Autos and accolades from a number of universities.
Srinivas can also be a excessive performing cricket participant and has gained a number of awards as an all rounder. He has discovered each Carnatic and Hindustani types of Indian Classical music from reputed lecturers like Pandit Parthasarathi Desikan (of Patiala Gharana).
Aahana Tiku
Freshman
Northeastern College
Following her curiosity in drugs all through highschool and past, Aahana Tiku is an brisk presence in her group. As a part of her native Pink Cross chapter, Tiku began her personal Worldwide Humantarian Legislation (IHL) Youth motion marketing campaign, submitting her group’s presentation to compete with Pink Cross chapters throughout the nation. Via this marketing campaign, she was chosen because the state consultant Pink Cross IHL Youth Advocate for Massachussetts, to attend a month-long internship and digital conferences, usually held in Washington, D.C, however held just about because of the pandemic.
One of the essential individuals in Tiku’s life, her grandmother Nirmala was recognized with Parkinson’s illness the yr Tiku was born. Rising up, she noticed the disastrous results of this progressive illness and was one among Nirmala’s main caretakers. When she reached highschool, she determined to start out her personal membership: the Parkinson’s Consciousness Membership. The principle purpose this membership was based was to coach individuals concerning the illness. She marketed for it every day and spoke about it on the varsity information. Quickly her membership grew to become affiliated with the American Parkinson’s Illness Affiliation and went from group discussions to analyzing medical literature and internet hosting fundraisers, the proceeds for every donated to the annual stroll for the American Parkinson’s Illness Affiliation. Via this work, she was chosen as the only real consultant for Massachusetts to current her work and progress to the opposite 50 state delegates. When she co-hosted the annual stroll in her hometown of Andover, taking up the obligations of challenge lead for the entire occasions and points associated to the American Parkinson’s Illness Affiliation, the tech assist for all of the crew members, and likewise the social media supervisor for promoting the occasions. She was one of many official members of the Organizing Board of the Annual APDA Stroll and he or she even based the Massachusetts Partnership Program.
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Tiku considered a challenge to salute and defend frontline employee by creating disposable plastic isolation robes. She remodeled 100 disposable robes up to now and the robes have been distributed to a number of hospitals.In her phrases: “The making of those robes require immense endurance, persistence, precision, and plenty of love and care. I completely loved the time-consuming course of as a result of I knew I used to be doing it to assist defend our heroes.” Tiku additionally spends her time volunteering at Lawrence Normal Hospital Maternity Ward, each earlier than and after the pandemic, answering calls, restocking cribs and making lab runs. She was chosen for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence primarily based on her educational excellence and demonstrated curiosity within the medical area.
