Aspiring Scientist Desires to Combine Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science to Help Solve the World’s Unanswered Questions and Educate Others Along the Way
ANKENY, IA, UNITED STATES, July 27, 2023. Aspire2STEAM.org, which provides educational scholarships and mentoring to young women and girls who are working toward careers that require education in science, tech, engineering, the arts, or math (STEAM), has awarded Niyathi Kukkapalli an EXPLORER scholarship.
A rising high school senior from Delaware, Niyathi used her Aspire2STEAM scholarship funds to help her attend the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) at Boston University in Massachusetts. This highly acclaimed summer program, with a 5% acceptance rate, exposes and trains aspiring mathematicians about proofs and advanced number theory (the study of integers and arithmetic functions). She attended the program as a rising junior, and is currently participating in the program’s second year.