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Antara, a grade 11 student, recognizes a common challenge among students who study abroad: exposure to foreign environments and the accompanying vulnerability to exchange rate fluctuations. She emphasises the importance of budget management in such situations.

Observing that there a lack of suitable options for university students to efficiently track and manage their finances while abroad, Antara has designed and built her own app to address this issue. She plans to develop an app that will offer features like a to-do list, an expense lock screen, and a currency converter. Her goal is to have this app ready for publication by June of the following year. This app aims to empower students studying abroad with the tools they need to navigate financial challenges effectively.

StartupYou’s student influencer, Maanya Singh, is the founder of Incuba-Naari, a non-profit organization providing a platform that incubates Indian women-owned businesses and amplifies their entrepreneurial journey. In phases 1 & 2, Incuba-Naari created an online community of over 500 Indian women entrepreneurs and has amplified over 50 women-owned small businesses. Maanya’s vision is to incubate 100 women-owned businesses to empower 100 communities across India by December 2023. She is the recipient of the MYP Student Innovators’ Grant for 21-22.

Sarthak Sangare and Vedika Agarwal (Grade 9, IISP) marked World Environment Day On June 5th, 2022 by raising INR 1,26,000 through online crowdfunding. Their initiative, ‘Opening Doors,’ aimed to provide two Bio Toilets to a government school in Lodhungwadi-Pait, Taluka Khed, 63 kilometers from Pune. Before this, the school lacked proper sanitation facilities, forcing students to use open ground areas.

The project employed a Tiger Toilet System, utilizing Tiger worms to efficiently convert waste into vermicompost, an odorless and sustainable solution rich in nutrients suitable for agriculture and gardening.

Project Y2C : Founder : Fahmida Zahin, Co-founder: Nishanth Reddy Aduma: “With a mission to empower children from orphanages, project Y2C, co-founded by 4 students from Indus International School Hyderabad and Delhi Public School Guwahati, has been successfully running for 2+ years with student volunteers in Hyderabad and Guwahati.

Project Y2C focuses on skill and mindset development of children from childcare institutions help them realise their hidden potential through the means of education and become successful and self-sufficient.

Dia Doshi is the founder of Inner Conversations – an organization devoted to recognizing and addressing mental health issues among Teenagers and Marginalised communities. Driven by her own need for mental health, Dia found herself deep in empathy for those with similar needs but without the necessary resources. She founded Inner Conversations with two primary targets – First, to build awareness and understanding of mental health issues by breaking the social stigma and Second, to ensure that the marginalised community gets the same access as the rest of the world. Together, Dia and her team are on a mission to empower and help the needy through their initiative.