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Dr. Darshana Joshi
The Founders (Dr. Darshana Joshi, CEO; Dr. Vijay Venugopalan, Managing Trustee & COO)Founder of VigyanShaala
Dr. Darshana Joshi is the the founders (dr. darshana joshi, ceo; dr. vijay venugopalan, managing trustee & coo) of VigyanShaala[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and women & children from Delhi.
VigyanShaala
VigyanShaala teaches STEM through project-based, hands-on learning for young people who rarely get laboratory access, with a particular push to bring rural girls into science under its She for STEM banner. Mentorship, job-readiness masterclasses and its own learning apps back the classroom work, towards a stated goal of enabling a million girls in STEM by 2030.
VigyanShaala reports the following, on its own site:
- 15,000+ students engaged with hands-on STEM
- 200,000+ mentoring hours facilitated
- 6,000+ She for STEM fellows from 22 states
- 200+ hands-on STEM workshops
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