Women Who Reign: Anshita Saini
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” -Albert Einstein
Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
Hey there! I’m Anshita Saini, a rising senior at Interlake High School in Bellevue, WA. Since the age of five, I’ve been immersed in art as an avid learner of both Hindustani classical music and kathak, a form of Indian classical dance, in addition to picking up the flute.
Though I have always been entranced by art, my experiences through middle school and high school have sparked my growing interest in rocketry and computer science too.
In middle school, I joined my school’s rocketry club by chance, where I captained a team of rocketeers through the Team America Rocketry Challenge to placing 16th at the National Finals! Inspired by the unique allure of rockets, I went on to become President of Interlake High School’s Rocketry Club, began prototyping a machine learning app to predict a rocket’s altitude, and am conducting astrophysics research in the summer of 2020. I truly cannot wait to see what else I can explore in this remarkable field!
Through my explorations in singing, dancing, and science, I’ve loved being able to pioneer a vision, armed with the tools of code, my…
