ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ARUNIMA TRIPATHI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Delhi Technological University | New Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 3 | Emerging Technologist
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Sapna
In India, so many children, especially girls are unfortunate that they don't get to attend school because of extremely low family income/ gender bias/ unaware of future possibilities/ jobs. I am thus passionate about educating young underprivileged children so that they can excel in whichever field they wish to pursue and also making them aware of various future jobs/ career paths as they lack a role model in their families.
For my project, I gathered together like-minded students from my university and made a society of 18 student volunteers. One day per week, two volunteers were required to go for a presentation to a school and educate students there about the above-mentioned topics.
Also, as I was assigned the position of Emerging technologist, I recognised the importance of technology in today's life and the fact that everyone should have access to technology irrespective of their backgrounds. Thus, for one day per week, I would go to a government school and teach the students basic computer courses such as using MS Office, Excel and basic Python programming. As teaching computers to 20+ students requires many computers, keyboards and other resources which cannot be afforded by all in India, this was done as a part of an initiative by my home university, which provided computers, keyboards, and other pieces of equipment.
About the Millennium Fellow
Arunima Tripathi is a junior Electronics and Communication Engineering student at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India. As a passionate education advocate, Arunima is committed to bringing about positive changes in society. Through her project, Project Sapna, she strives to reduce gender bias in the field of STEM and engineering. In the future, Arunima plans on pursuing a master's degree in Electrical Engineering to deliver a positive impact on the community with her skills and knowledge.