Women Who Reign: Labanya Mukhopadhyay

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” –Anne Frank

Tell us about yourself along with a fun fact!
I’m Labanya, a rising senior at Evergreen Valley High School from San Jose, California. I became fascinated with science and technology in elementary school through robotics, which inspired me later to create Hellobots (hellobots.com), a nonprofit organization to promote the knowledge of robotics and STEM to primarily young girls, minorities, and economically disadvantaged children! I continue to do robotics today as the captain of my school’s all-girls robotics team (shoutout to FTC 9657 Athena Robotics!) I’m also a Girls Who Code SIP alum from Amazon Lab 126 and part of the 2016 She++ #include sisterhood. I’ve participated in science fairs every year since 1st grade, and now I love competing in national and international fairs, where I get to meet like-minded students like me interested in research all over the world, such as at this year’s Intel ISEF 2017!
Most importantly, I’m allergic to carrots, which are sadly my favorite vegetable.