About me
My name is Akshara Anand and I am a junior at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, Texas with a passion for computer science, education, and women’s empowerment. I founded the STEMInnovation program and piloted it at Burnet Middle School to teach 20 young girls computer science through robotics and Scratch. I am very involved in the needs of the central Texas community as an avid promoter of computer science education and President of Girls Giving Grants. I also really enjoy computational epidemiology research and have won numerous awards for my work on mitigating pandemic spread through computational modeling.