Today, I’m especially excited to introduce you to two young women whom I could call future leaders, however they are already leading and innovating.

Please allow me to introduce Jainita Chauhan. She is a senior at Texas A&M University where she uses her engineering instincts and skills, including an intense passion for efficiency and improvement, to create solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. In December of 2019 she worked with other engineering students to design a water system for a rural community in Honduras without access to clean water. During the pandemic with travel halted, she led a research project that would be extremely beneficial to Incident Management Teams & first responders with the extremities of the virus & future public health crises. She presented her research at the largest student research symposium in the nation and was awarded 1st place in the engineering undergraduate competition. She is on track to graduate in May 2022 and I can’t wait to have her tell you more of her story directly.

We also have with us Sirihaasa Nallamothu, a high school junior from Normal, Illinois. At 16, she already possesses a mind-boggling array of coding skills and has used her passion for coding to teach girls grades 5-11 languages including Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & others. She has used her algorithm knowledge in creating a convolutional neural network (CNN) to expedite COVID-19 diagnosis and has done research and presented her findings in Ophthalmology, creating neural networks for diagnosing fundus and retinal diseases.

Index:

00:52 – Background of Aspire2STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics)
02:06 – BraveIT Awards sponsored by Tierpoint
03:15 – Introduction and Background of Jainita Chauhan
04:35 – Introduction and Background of Sirihaasa Nallamothu
07:07 – Secret to overcome barriers and innovate
14:35 – How to push through imposter syndrome
21:36 – Instrumental experiences and secret to success in innovation
41:18 – Advice to adopt this mindset to innovate with purpose
46:41 – What innovation would you most like to see gain adoption?

Helpful Links –
Aspire2STEAM
BraveIT Award
Carol S Dweck’s mindset
Imposter Syndrome
Research Explanation
Model Demonstration
Stack Overflow

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Release Date:
25 August 2021