Nidhi is a sophomore from the Silicon Valley who joined ASEI as a student member after being awarded the ASEI Silicon valley Emerging Technology Award at the 2020 Synopsys Championship. Our Silicon valley chapter has been sponsoring and encouraging promising students in this manner since inception in 2015. Through ASEI, she has been able to see what technological opportunities there are for Indian girls such as herself.
She is very passionate about helping others and does so by using her skills with programming and hardware to create products that help those in need. Some of her projects include the Money Reader for the Visually Impaired and a device called Start2Run aimed at helping athletes, specifically runners, manage their workouts without overstressing themselves.
She has won first place in Synopsys Science fair twice, and was the recipient of the ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Award twice as well in 2020 and 2021. Additionally, she won the second prize in ASEI Silicon Valley Budding Engineers Talent Showcase (BETS) in August last year and received top prize at the Youth Technology Exposition (YTE 2020) organized as part of ASEI’s 33rd National Convention in December 2020. Additionally, She has recently won the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing as a Bay Area Winner.
In addition to creating projects, she is an avid math competitor, who has won awards in nationally recognized contests, and has recently qualified for the 2021 USA Junior Math Olympiad. In her free time, she likes to read, play the piano, and work on robotics.
We are very proud of Nidhi’s accomplishments and volunteer spirit and on behalf of entire ASEI, wish her the very best as she advances her STEM journey in high school and beyond.
This article is based on conversations Aditya Guthey, an ASEI Silicon Valley chapter member and a career coach has had with Sania Jain for ASEI Youth Corner. A short excerpt is here ASEI has a partnership with MoonshotJr – a Silicon Valley based startup that accelerates youths’ path from STEM education to entrepreneurship. Click to avail special offers for ASEI community.
