Girls are on the cutting edge of using STEM to create a more sustainable & equitable future!
Ever since I was a young girl, I have always been drawn to technology and its endless possibilities. It was this passion that led me on a remarkable journey with Technovation Girls, an organization dedicated to empowering young girls in the field of technology. Participating in 2021 season ( and winning the Grand Prize !) and volunteering as an ambassador for the last four years helped to shape up my technical , presentation and soft skills.When I first learned about Technovation Girls in 2020, I was immediately captivated by its mission to bridge the gender gap in the tech industry and empower girls to become leaders and innovators.
Throughout my childhood, I have always been inspired by my parents and the potential of technology in our society. My dad is a computer science engineer, and my mom is a math teacher who went into the teaching sector in pursuit of making a direct impact on the lives of youth although she could have been making way more money in a sector besides education with her technical skill base. Due to my family background, much of my passion projects relate to the fusion of technical skills with a purpose of bettering the community alongside my other interests of business, youth advocacy, and community-based organizing, which eventually helped me come across my Technovation.
In my first year of participating in Technovation, I became a finalist for an app that I worked with a team on, which tackled climate change with a foolproof plan of making a select amount of change within a user’s lifestyle to mitigate their ecological footprint. Moving forward, I then co-founded another app, Z-Waste, that was a food insecurity initiative in schools and then became a Student Ambassador for Technovation where I connected with a variety of aspiring female technology professionals and that is how I connected with Meenakshi and got involved with RisetoAI to empower youth in AI alongside STEM and entrepreneurship. I am currently working with Meenakshi to host more workshops and getting more girls involved within Technovation and AI-related fields.
I have increasingly gotten more involved with Technovation, pitching my apps to corporations for feedback, sharing my story to girls worldwide on Technovation’s platform, and working on the publicity team in Technovation in addition to pitching apps to politicians in my local community. I hope to engage girls with both the technical aspect of AI and the intersections of AI with community-based organizing and entrepreneurship. My aspiration is not only to enhance my own coding skills but also empower youth along the way. All throughout my life, I have been instilled with a principle that you receive what you give, and RisetoAI is a way for me to stay true to my guiding principles to give back to my community.
