Baldwin School's Krisangi Bhargava is Main Line Student of the Week - Oct. 3, 2021

 Baldwin School's Krisangi Bhargava is Main Line Student of the Week - Oct. 3, 2021

 

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  A senior at Baldwin School, last summer Krisangi Bhargava led, with a peer, an entrepreneurship camp for more than 40 middle school girls in partnership with Bryn Mawr College. She also participated in the Germination Project Fellowship in 2020. In 2019, she developed an independent research project through the Teen Research in Environmental Education and Science (TREES) program at the University of Pennsylvania regarding the impact of fracking on PA watersheds. In 2020, she was a member of the Congressional Youth Cabinet – District 5, where she worked under Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon in a bipartisan group. Bhargava also recently completed an 8 month IBM Quantum Computing Course. In 2019, she worked at Drexel University’s Robot Springboard, where she was a high school instructor to 36 middle school girls, developed lesson plans, taught NXT Robotics Programming, and empowered young girls to continue their involvement in STEM. She has received the following awards: Junior Humanities and Science Symposium (JSHS) first place regional winner, JSHS undergraduate tuition scholarship winner, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) three-time Regional Affiliate Award winner, and DECA entrepreneurship second place state co-winner. At Baldwin, she is a senior head of the DECA Business Club and a Lamplighter (school tour group) member.

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