Latha Narayannan
Co-founderFounder of Shooting Stars Foundation
Latha Narayannan is the co-founder of Shooting Stars Foundation (2015)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education from Chennai.
Shooting Stars Foundation
Shooting Stars Foundation is a Trust registered in Tamil Nadu in December 2020 to help students from low-income families pursue engineering, medicine and other STEM degrees they could otherwise not afford. Beyond tuition scholarships, it runs mentorship, English-communication and career-readiness training, and organises hackathons and hands-on STEM events for its scholars. The organisation also runs a linked STEM programme for students in the United States.
Shooting Stars Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 1,506 scholars
- 95% graduated
- 550+ first-gen scholars
- 50,000 youth reached via STEM programs
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Chennai
- Founded
- 2015
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] ““Shooting Stars Foundation has grown from a small high-school project to create hundreds of engineers, computer programmers, and doctors around the world, as well as instill the curiosity for technology in thousands of underserved students” said Latha Narayannan, Co-Founder, CEO, and Vice-Chairperson.” — Shooting Stars Foundation. Source
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