2022 Lendo Fellowship Recipients

Recipient Program Name Program Description
Sriya Amineni AI Scholars Live Online A 10 session program that exposes students to fundamental AI concepts and guides them to build a socially impactful project.
Derek Bednarz Materials, Science, and Engineering Summer Institute at Drexel University Through science and engineering activities, students will gain an understanding of how materials impact the fields of energy, biotechnology, electronics, and aerospace. Sustainability and nanotechnology will be a theme woven through all the modules.
Vinay Belagodu Summer College for High School Students at Purdue University An on-campus residential summer program that allows high school students to take college-level coursework alongside Purdue students in summer session. Course may include data science and STEM, planning for research in college, and introduction to academic programs at Purdue.
Mahek Dixit Campus Business at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business A daytime summer program that allows participants to learn the basics of major business disciplines including accounting, marketing, finance, and management, as well as the core concepts of business including leadership, professional image, etiquette, team building, and strategy.
Muhammad Adam Dombrowski Stanford Mathematics Camp In this three-week online program, rising high school juniors and seniors engage in deep exploration of mathematics and develop as mathematicians, SUMaC offers two courses, called Program I and Program II, with unique topics for each course. Each student attends one of two courses, both of which build on topics central to mathematics through their historical significance and their relevance to current lines of mathematical research.
Alyssa Fanelli Summer Institute at Walnut Hill College Students will participate in a hands-on program to explore the fields of culinary arts, pastry arts, and hospitality managment.
Ava Fugowski Teen Entrepreneurship Challenge at Penn State University Abington A summer program that incorporates STEAM programs to teach high school students the key strategies for starting a business and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
Isabella Garcia CalArts Animation Intensive During this six-week program students study drawing and design for film and access workshops and lectures designed to broaden their understanding of animation as a multi-faceted art form.
Daniel Kim Engineering Summer Program at Stony Brook University This one-week program introduces students to electrical engineering and computer programming. Participants will build basic circuits, and advance to using breadboards and microprocessors. They will receive a credit card sized computer and learn how to develop code with it.
Dean Majikas BME Summer Camp at TCNJ Participants will be exposed to the diverse field of biomedical engineering through hands-on lab and design activities such as mechanically testing materials, learning principles of diffusion, working with industry-grade CAD systems, and more.
Samarth Mannikeri EMT Training through the Emergency Training Academy A hybrid program designed to give participants the skills necessary to function as an EMT and prepares students to take the national certification exams require to be registered as an EMT in Pennsylvania.
Robert Papshev Intro to Psychology at Bucks County Community College Introduction to Psychology is a summer college course at the Bucks County Community College (BCC). As part of its High School Enrichment program, BCC offers high school students an opportunity to enroll in college-level courses. This online course focuses on the basic introduction to the field of psychology and the psychological factors which influence the behavior of animals and humans. It will cover history of psychology, research methods, biological basis of behavior, and other topics.
Braeden Quinn CAEE and Materials Science and Engineering Summer Institute at Drexel Univerity CAEE: Exploration of civil, architectural, and environmental engineering majors with a focus on possible career paths and sample occupations for each major. Participants learn how atomic elements arrange themselves for the materials that are all around us. Through hands-on science and engineering activities, students will gain an understanding of how materials impact the fields of energy, biotechnology, and electronics.
Abiche Schlosberg Inside Design at Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design For individuals considering the world of design this course cracks open the excitement and opportunities of architecture and related design disciplines. The course is separated into two parts, the study of materials and model building.
Jayce Seconda Biomedical Engineering STEM Summer Academy at Drexel Participants will be exposed to laboratory and core research skills through interactive, hands-on learning activities such as making nano-particles and measuring brain waves. Students will participate in site visits, seminars, and presentations by industry experts
Ayush Shah Frontiers in Physics at Stanford University The course teaches students how to prove complicated concepts like time-dilation, mass-energy equivalence, and paradoxes. At the end of the course, students must complete an article on a complex topic learned in the program.
Brenna Veitz Writing in the Big City: Reporting in New York sponsored by the New York Times Participants will learn how to determine what is newsworthy, gain skills to be discerning about sources, and be challenged to step into the reader's shoes. Students will complete a full reporting cycle from idea to article, producing short pieces as well as at least one longer well-polished piece.
Ella Wendel National Student Leadership Conference on Medicine and Healthcare at American University Students will participate in clinical experiences (suturing and surgical knot tying), visit medical facilities, and take part in a challenging patient diagnostic simulation.
Abigal Wesolowski National Student Leadership Conference on Medicine and Healthcare at American University Students will participate in clinical experiences (suturing and surgical knot tying), visit medical facilities, and take part in a challenging patient diagnostic simulation.
Thatcher Wilhelm National Student Leadership Conference on Engineering at Johns Hopkins Participants will work with a team to design robots, wind turbines, and water purification systems. Students will also tour laboratories and attend seminars hosted by leading researchers and professors.