Kaavya is a junior at Los Altos High School, where she writes for the school newspaper the Talon. She enjoys science, especially biology and genetics, and writing. She also loves Speech & Debate and has a specific passion for topics about international affairs.

Kaavya Butaney

Rachel is a junior at Los Altos High School with a passion for biology and English. In STEMpower, she helps design interactive STEAM lessons for young students. When she’s not planning curriculums, she writes for her school’s student newspaper, hikes, volunteers in her community, paints, and tutors young learners.

Rachel Rudyak

Sydney is a junior at Los Altos High School. She enjoys science and math and is excited to help make an impact on the community through STEMpower. In her free time, Sydney can be found dancing, reading, or spending time with family and friends. 

Sydney Tung

Zoey is a sophomore at Los Altos High School who enjoys playing soccer, reading novels, and painting. Some of her interests include learning languages and studying linguistics, biology, and psychology.

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Also a Workshop Facilitator!

Zoey Brenner

Danielle is currently a junior at California High School, who is interested in studying psychology and human anatomy. She loves to travel and make different foods and desserts. One day she hopes to live in an innovative tiny home. 

Danielle Lee

Audrey is a senior at Los Altos High School. She enjoys STEM and is excited to be able to share that enjoyment through her interest in filmmaking. When she’s not editing STEMpower videos, Audrey plays field hockey, reads, and makes short films. 

Audrey Boenninghausen

Shelli is a junior at Los Altos High School. She enjoys learning new things and is especially passionate about science. She loves working with kids and inspiring younger students in STEM fields as well. In her free time, Shelli does cross country and track and field, plays piano, and tutors younger students.

Shelli Lewis

Sophia is a rising sophomore at Los Altos High School. She loves all things science, especially biology and anatomy, and she is excited to share her love for science through video. In her free time, she plays tennis on the high school team during the school year and ballgirls over the summer. 

Sophia Shao

Emily is a sophomore at Los Altos High School. As a STEMpower volunteer, she aspires to design engaging and diverting pieces of art to further accentuate her passion for the perpetual world beyond biology and medicine . During her free time, she enjoys playing badminton and fencing in addition to mastering the art of music through the viola.

Emily Jeon

Aneesa is a junior at Dublin High School who loves anything to do with STEM. In her free time she loves to go hiking, travel, watch movies, and dance an Indian/Pakistani folk dance called Bhangra. She’s excited to work with fellow STEM lovers and build a strong team with volunteers!

Aneesa Mustafa

Shreya is a friendly sophomore at California High School. Her hobbies include hiking, learning python, reading fantasy books, drawing, and hanging out with her budgies. After growing up with a dedication for STEM, she now volunteers as an outreach member for STEMpower.

Shreya Pasupuleti

Bridget is a freshman at Los Altos High School who likes all forms of art (whether digital or traditional media). Her favorite subject is art and she has two cats. She is excited to help design websites for STEM!

Bridget Liu

Ikbal is a sophomore at Carlmont High School. She enjoys studying Science and Math, and is particularly fascinated with medicine. In her free time, she likes to draw and play the piano. She is very excited to meet new people and explore different STEM fields through STEMpower!

Ikbal Surucu

Yash is a junior at Los Altos High, who enjoys drawing, designing graphics and painting in his free time. Besides painting on paper or canvas, he also likes to personalize his shoes, skate decks and even his computer, along with his twin brother.

Yash Nasikkar

Bridget is a freshman at Los Altos High School who likes all forms of art (whether digital or traditional media). Her favorite subject is art and she has two cats. She is excited to help design websites for STEM!

Bridget Liu

Kira is a freshman at Cal High who is fascinated by science, psychology, and languages. In her free time she enjoys playing soccer, dancing, reading, writing, and playing the violin. She can’t wait to write for STEMpower and help introduce students to the scientific wonders of STEM!

Kira Sidhu

Anand is a junior in Los Altos High school who has a passion for writing, communicating, and understanding complex topics. His favorite subject is English, but he equally enjoys history, statistics, and biology. As a Blog Writer, he is excited to market the ideas and values of STEMpower to more people.

Anand Mehta

Nina is a rising junior at Mountain View High School. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, backpacking, rock climbing, and photography. Her favorite subjects are history and biology, and she loves learning about how everything works  in the world.

Nina Timofeyeva

Nimisa is a sophomore at California High School who has a passion for the sciences. Her hobbies include swimming, playing water polo, reading, writing, and coming up with sarcastic comments. She is excited to write for the STEMpower blog, and can’t wait to see what comes next!

Nimisa Panda

Kira is a freshman at Cal High who is fascinated by science, psychology, and languages. In her free time she enjoys playing soccer, dancing, reading, writing, and playing the violin. She can’t wait to write for STEMpower and help introduce students to the scientific wonders of STEM!

Kira Sidhu