Five Students From Ranikhet Government College Selected for Global STEM Mentorship Programme
Five students from Government P.G. College, Ranikhet, have been selected for the Accelerator Phase of 'Kalpana: She for STEM', an international mentorship programme connecting them with scientists and researchers abroad.
Current Summary
Five students of Government P.G. College, Ranikhet in Almora district have been selected for the Accelerator Phase of 'Kalpana: She for STEM', a mentoring initiative run by VigyanShaala to give young women greater access to research exposure, professional mentorship and STEM career pathways. The selected students — Ritu Mehra, Jyoti, Tanisha Arya, Harshita Phartiyal and Bhawana Bisht — span biotechnology and biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics and space science. Ritu Mehra will be mentored by Yashashree Joshi, a senior marketing manager at Roche Diagnostics in the United States. Chemistry students Jyoti and Tanisha Arya will be mentored by Maria Panoukidou of Community Lifelong Learning and Employability in Edinburgh, UK, while Harshita Phartiyal will be mentored by Shivani Verma, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Bhawana Bisht, studying physics and space science, will be mentored by Atiya Badar. The college noted it is an encouraging achievement for the institution to have five students from the same college selected for the programme's Accelerator Phase.
What We Know
- Five students from Government P.G. College, Ranikhet were selected for the Accelerator Phase of 'Kalpana: She for STEM', run by VigyanShaala.
- The students are Ritu Mehra, Jyoti, Tanisha Arya, Harshita Phartiyal and Bhawana Bisht, across biotechnology, chemistry and physics/space science.
- Each student has been paired with an international mentor from institutions in the US, UK and Finland.
What Is Still Unclear
- Duration of the Accelerator Phase and what specific outcomes or next steps it leads to.
- How many total students nationally were selected for this phase, to gauge the scale of the achievement.
What Changed
- 4 Oct, 03:12 pmSignal detected: Five Students From Ranikhet Government College Selected for Global STEM Mentorship Programme
Background
VigyanShaala's 'Kalpana: She for STEM' initiative aims to expand research exposure and career pathways for young women in STEM; this is the first appearance of Ranikhet college students in the programme in available reporting.