Arthi Nadhan
BSE ’19, Chemical Engineering
The purpose of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Overseas program is to provide participants and the general SWE community the opportunity to develop global awareness through an international Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) Outreach program. We believe that outreach events are key to enhancing our organization’s mission as they provide a platform for individuals of all ages to realize their potential. Through programs like this one, we are able to bring out passion for science and engineering hidden in children of the next generation. We bring together a diverse community in which individuals can express themselves and their interests regardless of gender, ethnicity, and economic background. We hope to achieve this by conducting our SWE Overseas program in India, because the Indian STEM education system is very different from our own and provides a challenging environment to adapt alternative teaching methods. India houses a very diverse environment, and is therefore an ideal location to help develop global awareness and open-mindedness in our participants. Currently, we are building the SWE Overseas STEM Outreach Camp in Bharat Children’s Academy (BCA) in Walchandnagar, Maharashtra, India. We plan to reach out to organizations like Teach for India, and conduct workshops for underprivileged children, and teachers in the Indian community. We hope that we can extend our impact to such communities, while providing our participants an expanded cultural sampling of the diverse nation. We also plan to expand cultural awareness of our participants, our SWE section, and the University by travelling to different parts of India and sharing our experiences through social media and informational meetings.
Library Mentor: Jeff Martin