🎓 School Leadership

Junior School: House Captain

Middle School: 8^th grade Head Girl & 9^th grade Prefect

Senior School: 11^th Additional Secretary General & All-Rounder Awards – 4^th, 5^th , 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th grades

🥇 Major Awards & Competitions

Pramerica Award, 2023

Pramerica Emerging Visionaries is a national recognition program that awards student volunteers for their innovative solutions in their communities. Samara and her team won for their work on food wastage.

First Prize in Youth Power Competition, 2024

🎤 Extracurricular Activities, Awards & Leadership

A Capella Group, Founder – Started an a capella group “Syncopation” from scratch, to popularise one of the oldest forms of music in India. Auditioned and recruited the initial group members, organising various performances, while actively raising funds for the education of underprivileged girl children.

Wharton Investment global challenge, Team Leader

F1 in Schools, Team Leader

World’s largest STEM challenge where students aged 9-19 design, create, and manufacture their car along with different aspects such as marketing, pit display, and enterprise portfolios

‘Best Project Management’ Award in global competition, Singapore 2023

Competed in multiple rounds at regional and national levels, making it to the world finals in Singapore with 68 best teams from all over the world and won the project management award sponsored by PMO, as team leader and design engineer, and coordinated all aspects of the project, ensuring sustainability of the project and design.

Interact Club, Director

Odyssey of the Mind, 2020 (1^st place), 2021 (3^rd place), 2022 (2^nd place)
A creative problem-solving program where teams provide solutions to predefined long-term problems by writing, designing, constructing, and putting on a theatrical performance.

Model United Nations

Oxford University Model United Nations, Delegate of Japan, 2022 Participated in the Oxford MUN with delegations from all over the world. Samara represented JAPAN In ECOSOC (UN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL)

AIMUN, 2021,2022,2023
Second largest MUN in India. Won special mention in 2023

ISMUN – high commendation, 2021

YRONS In Germany ( Young researchers of Natural sciences), Team Leader, 2023
This was a science conference with students from all around the world, where Samara’s team chose ‘sustainability’ as their theme and named their project ‘SRIJANA’, which means ‘Creation for the betterment of Mankind’

NASA SPACE SET
A competition organised by NASA in which teams of 11 members competed to make a settlement on the moon using the RFP received. Owing to her contributions in the Human factors department, their team made it to the national round.

CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) Competition
A science competition held by the government of India in which Samara presented a project called ‘MedAir’, which helped transport medical equipment during disasters and medical crises.

 DIDI (Dubai institute of design and innovation)
A design competition from the Dubai institute in which they were given the task of making a product out of the cardboard that comes with Samsung TVs in a bid to encourage reuse and recycling.

IAYP International Award for Young People
A non-competitive award for high school students by the Duke of Edinburgh, where Samara took part in one major activity and two minor activities for 6 months, covering extracurriculars, outdoor activities, and volunteering projects.

Amity Space Design (3^rd place), 2022
A competition in which teams have to make their own space settlement on Mars.

IMMO,UIEO,NSTSTE Olympiad – UIEO – Gold Medal

Atal Tinkering Labs , Special Mention
Took part in the ATL fest organised by the government, for her project ‘MedAir’

Intra-school competitions – Ignited Spirits – acting competition (first place), Science colloquium – science competition (first place), Dhananjay Mohan Cup – acting competition (first place), Heritage quizzes, Directors Cut – acting competition (special mention), Ramanujan – Math competition (1st place)

📰 Media Coverage

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