My STEM experience!

1. Student Name: Sriram Pankan
Clubs/Programs
(in/out of school)
Grade(s)
Involved Hours/Weeks Organiza on/Descrip on
Robo cs 9 24/32 weeks
Par cipated in the First Tech Challenge as a single person team.
Single handedly built, programmed, tested, and documented a
pick and place robot for the compe on for both manual and
automa c por ons of the contest. Developed a proposal for
community outreach involving robo cs for underprivileged
students. My picker-upper robot prototype built for the
compe on is described in my engineering notebook here and
videos of my robot.
Robo cs 7,8 16/40 weeks
Par cipated in the First Lego League. Designed, built, tested,
and documented mul ple missions for the compe on.
Developed a prototype for detec ng water pollu on using a
cellphone. Our team advanced to the region level finals.
Robo cs 6 16/40 weeks
Par cipated in the First Lego League. Designed, built, tested,
and documented mul ple missions for the compe on.
Developed a prototype for helping blind people navigate using
a camera-based sensor. Our team advanced to FLL Razorback
finals; our team was recognized with a young innovators prize
for our project.
Robo cs 5 16/40 weeks
Par cipated in the First Lego League. Designed, built, tested,
and documented mul ple missions for the compe on.
Explored detec ng intensity of sleep with smart sensors.
Robo cs 4 16/40
Par cipated in the First Lego League. Designed, built, tested,
and documented mul ple missions for the compe on.
Developed a prototype for helping recycle trash.
Climate Project
Grade(s)
Involved Hours/Weeks Organiza on/Descrip on
Decarbonizing
helmet 9 10/30
I became very alarmed about the global climate crisis and
attempted formulating a prototype to reduce the carbon
footprint of humans (link to three part presentation and
the prototype I built.
Improving
decarbonizing helmet 10 10/10
I improved the decarbonizing helmet during my tenth
grade as part of an independent study with improved
prototype
Employment
Grade(s)
Involved Hours/Weeks Organiza on/Descrip on
Incubator Program 11 30/10
I am selected for a 10 week incubator program for AI devops in
backend, frontend, tes ng, and machine learning.
Awards/Honors
Grade(s)
Involved Descrip on of Award/Honors
Scholarship 11 50/3
I am selected for AI team tomorrow internship in Fall 2022
with a 30% scholarship where our team built a GPT-3
based search/summarization engine for entrepreneurs to

2. identify relevant state of the art AI. A presentation of the
webservice we built can be found here.
Scholarship 11 50/3
I am selected for advanced (Level-3) AI summer camp at
AI-Camp.org with 30% scholarship. Our team built a
recommender system. A presentation of the webservice
we built can be found here.
Scholarship 10 50/3
I am selected for advanced (Level-1) AI summer camp at
AI-Camp.org with 30% scholarship. Our team built a system
for identifying pathologies using a deep learning based
object detection (YOLO) system for medical imagery
Innova on 7
Developed a prototype for helping blind people navigate using
a camera-based sensor. our team was recognized with a young
innovators prize for our project
Music Composi on 4,5,6,7,8 1/6
Selected for presen ng at Darien Young Composers Concert
including one composi ng generated using python
programming. Here’s the recording of the selected
programmed composi on: link
Entrepreneurship
Grade(s)
Involved Descrip on of Award/Honors
Startup 12 5/ongoing
I am part of a startup ISNNetwork for building an online server
farm for providing enhanced gaming experience for advanced
user via online store: h p://isnserver.net. We are already
genera ng revenue and our users appreciate our be er gaming
experience!