Drop the STEM podcast

This episode will blow your mind! 😉👏Our newest guest is Chinmayi Balusu @chinmayi_balusu , researcher in neuroscience and undergraduate student at Columbia University pursuing the life sciences and medical humanities. She is also the founder and CEO of Simply Neuroscience @simplyneuroscience 🧠, an international non-profit organization dedicated to fostering students' interdisciplinary interests in the brain through neuroscience and psychology education, outreach, and awareness. Her numerously awarded and published research experiences involve aging, neurodegenerative diseases, traumatic brain injury conducted at Columbia U Irving Medical Center, Department of Psychology or the Bluck Institute for Research on Aging. 💡

Chinmayi is an Alumni Mentor at Society for Science & the Public Alumni College Match program @society4science , Team member of the Combating COVID-19 Challenge at the New York Academy of Science, a Leadership Board Member of 500 Women Scientists @500womensci and a Taekwondo Instructor and Certified Judge! 💪

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Presenting Christine Ye @christine__ye in the newest episode, an accomplished Astrophysicist and a STEM advocate! 🔭🌟Most of her work at the moment is around pulsar glitches and interior physics, but she has also completed work in galactic spectroscopy, astrophysical hydrodynamics simulations, and gravitational waves, working at NANOSTART and the University of Washington. ✨💫She won special award at ISEF 2019, the SPIE: International Optics and Photonics Society’s Award for her research project. She’s a registered 2020 ISEF (double Alumna✌️ @society4science ), Regeneron Finalist and a Science Olympiad National Bronze Medalist ’18. She’s part of American Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, Girls Rock in Science and Math. Her scientific interests are at the intersection between data science, computation, and astrophysics. 💻Furthermore, Christine’s training under an advanced Russian ballet curriculum, performing major roles in productions such as The Nutcracker and Don Quixote! 🩰

Above reaching for the stars in this episode, she shares what her dream role would be, which scientist she would share a dinner with and how you can bring the best out of your STEM endeavours! 😉

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We're welcoming Rachel Seevers on our newest episode, an accomplished oceanographic and engineering mechanic researcher! 🌊You probably have heard about Rachel since she designed a Bioinspired Submersible Dual Propulsion System, mirroring the movement of jellyfish. 💧With the project she won multiple awards at ISEF 2019: Shanghai STEM Cloud Center's Award in Systems Software, NASA's Honorable Mention, and the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award! 💥

We've also expanded on The Virtual Winglet design, receiving Third Award in Engineering Mechanics at ISEF 2018. She is not only a triple ISEF Alumna and 8th place winner of Regeneron 2019, but Rachel also attended the Research Science Institute hosted at MIT in 2018, and then served as a Counselor for the Center of Excellence in Education. 📚

She also mentors for children of low-income families, hosts Science Fair Clinic, supervises donation programs. She is part of STEMFems, Experimentors, French Honor Society and Science National Honor Society, to name a few. 🎓She also received Girl Scouts of America Silver Award.

She wears Crimson 😉 since Rachel is attending Harvard University Class of 2023, studying Mechanical Engineering and Economics.

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Milidu Jayaweera is a researcher in Machine Learning and Wireless Communications, a distinguished National scholar and double ISEF finalist. ⭐️ At ISEF 2019 with his project, He won Second Award in Robotics and Intelligent Machines, National Security Agency Research Directorate: Second Place Award "Cyber Pioneer” and Third Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. 💻 Milidu also started tutoring low-income students at the beginning of this year at ABQ Explora. In this episode, we're gonna explore what Game of Jamming is all about, how it’s related to warfare and Mission-critical communications. 😉

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What better way to hit off our new season than with this episode, in which we are going to explore the intersection of scientific and creative processes, such as writing! 🎉Alice Cai @alicecai2020 is a published author of the novel: Crowned: Legend of the Three Bears. 🐻Alice has been nationally recognized multiple times by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, including a 2020 American Voice medal. She got published by The Best Teen Writing of 2019, which is the nation's longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens. ✍️The ISEF gang is growing @society4science since Alice is both an ISEF'19 and 20 qualified finalist, as she worked on Fabrication Optimization of Nano-structures for potential sensor applications, and we're gonna see how chameleons and nanostructures can come into the same picture! She also co-founded with Minnie Zhang, a unique educational platform: Buzz Online. @buzzonlineofficial 🐝Alice is passionate about both storytelling and research, finding links between the two, and she also shared some cool teasers for her next novels that you do not want to miss out! 😎

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Let’s welcome Sidharth Anantha, who is the founder and president of Seeing for the blind that creates products to help visually impaired people navigate. ➡️ He’s also the founder of KtByte robotics program, and as an RSI 2019 scholar, during the summer Sidharth researched at MIT AeroAstro lab on a short-takeoff electric air taxi. (Not gonna put a bad airplane joke here, because it would never land 🛬) Amid the COVID’19 pandemic, he founded an online educational platform, HELM Learning, Helping Everyone Learn More. 👩🏽‍💻🧑🏻‍💻Sidharth is literally a student Ignite Speaker, a renowned speaker on both and national and international platforms, such as the Global Teen Medical Summit, Boston Accessibility or Empower Conference in New Delhi, India’s largest accessibility conference. He’s also a Conrad Innovator, a National Honor Society Member, award-winner of numerous entrepreneurial and research-oriented competitions! ⚡️

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Let’s give a round of applause to Eeshani Behara, our next guest on the podcast!👏

Eeshani developed a biosensor based POC device for chronic kidney diseases with which she received the First Place Student Choice Award at the 2019 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, also First Place in Engineering and Induction in 2018!

She is not only a star in the STEM fields but on the stage as well. 🎤Eeshani in the American Protégé International Vocal Competition was selected to perform solo at Carnegie Hall in December 2019. Eeshani is in the ISEF squad as well, a 2019-2020 registered finalist and winner of Drexel University’s Full tuition scholarship. Her research project is on developing a biosensor that can detect platelet hyperaggregation in cardiovascular disease. ❣️

She became a winner of Youth in Action, being VP of Palm Beach County Behavioral Health Coalition’s Teen Coalition. The organization is dedicated to preventing underage substance use through education and promoting self-advocacy. Eeshani is also President of Tri M Music Honor Society and an accomplished woman in science, so get ready, because the content we discussed is going to be music to your ears! 😉

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Here comes the 30th episode, y'all! Jay Iyer is a researcher in microbiology, a double ISEF finalist and an RSI 2020 finalist. Jay created a bacteriophage cocktail that showed outstanding efficacy in killing E.coli bacteria in meat. As part of his ISEF 2020 project, he developed a novel way of proteolysis in fighting against Alzheimer's Disease. He is also a First Place Division Challenge Winner at National Science Bowl, founder and CEO of the nonprofit organization "Mind Relief". Through Agape in Action, Jay travelled to Guatemala to assist in gynaecological treatments. He is invested in scientific advocacy fields, teaching the younger generation about STEM concepts. Jay is an EKAM Youth Ambassador, also treasurer of the Indian Student Association and a distinguished Ultimate Frisbee player. Be sure to give a listen to this milestone episode!

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The newest guest on the pod is Carla García Medina: a researcher in Computer Science and Engineering! 💫In her 2018 EUCYS project, she applied genetic algorithms to solve the "Travelling Salesman Problem", which is considered a computational NP problem. 💻 She participated at the 8th International Swiss Talent Forum, where outstanding young talents across the world are assigned different challenges. 🇨🇭Carla developed an iOS application for IDEA (Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association) Cambodia. She worked for companies and institutions in ML and Deep learning, and now she studies at NYU Tandon School of Engineering! 🍎Carla is also the winner of several prizes, such as the National Youth Prize in Volunteering and the Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award. Carla is further an active member of the European Youth Parliament and the European Solidarity Corps! 🇪🇺 Listen to a bunch of intriguing topics, discussions on ethical issues and inspirational takeaways from living in New York covered that you don't want to miss out! 😉

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Let’s give it up to Shaan Baig @shaanbaig, who’s an American-Canadian researcher, speaker, entrepreneur, a Global Teen Leader! 🌎

Shaan created SB Innovations, a research and development company creating affordable, sustainable solutions to pressing global issues. As part of SB Innovations, he founded Young Scientists & Innovators to help teens discover their potential in STEM and grant them the tools to turn their visions into reality. 💫His innovations include a novel work on Alzheimer’s disease early detection and treatment, cancer sensor strip, alternative prostate cancer treatment and more. 🧠He was awarded with numerous prizes on platforms such as CWSF @cwsf_espc , Abu Dhabi Expo-Science International and Google Science Fair. @society4science The ISEF gang is expanding, since Shaan won 3rd place in Materials Science and the Patent and Trademark Office Society Award, and the Young Scientist Award (best in fair) at the Taiwan International Science Fair. He has been invited to speak at TEDx, the United Nations, having spoken at universities and conferences around the world. LINK IN BIO • Tune in to discover more. Available on ApplePodcasts🍎, iTunes🎧, Spotify✅ and SoundCloud📳. Like, subscribe and follow the pod if you wanna take a few moments of science with us! 😎 #stem #stempassion #intelisef #intel #science #ISEF2019 #SSPalumni #dropthestem #dropthestemgang

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