Anjali Chadha (born 2000s) is an American bioengineer. She is an ambassador for AAAS If/Then. She was named a 2020 Voices Of the Year, by ''Seventeen'' magazine.

Life

She grew up in

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. She studied at

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, and

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. She founded Empowered, Inc. in 2016 In 2018, she was featured in the documentary, ''

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''. In May 2018, Chadha won two prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF). She won the Environmental Engineering Intel ISEF Second Award and the Special Award: Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the United States Air Force First Award, winning $1500 and $750 respectively. She was also a member of the

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's 2018

Research Science Institute The Research Science Institute (RSI) is an international summer research program for high school students. RSI is sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) and hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, ...

cohort. In 2019, she was one of 40 finalists for the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) for her invention of a sensor that could detect

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from underground sources and received a $25,000 prize. Chadha was featured on an episode of Mission Unstoppable that aired on June 12, 2021.

References

External links

Official Website of Chadha's nonprofit ''Empowered, Inc.''
Living people American bioengineers Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni DuPont Manual High School alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Engineers from Louisville, Kentucky Women bioengineers {{Louisville-stub