ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT TANISH NILESH CHUDIWAL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 5
" My passion for innovation and sustainability drives my work at the intersection of technology and social impact. The Millennium Fellowship will empower me to channel my skills in artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship toward creating solutions that address climate change and build sustainable communities. I am eager to collaborate with like-minded change makers, deepen my understanding of the UN SDGs, and translate ideas into tangible, global impact. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: StemSense
StemSense began with a simple observation: while talent is distributed equally, opportunity is not. We realized that many students in government schools in Chennai have
immense curiosity about how the world works but lack the hands-on tools to explore
it. They often view "science" as something that happens in textbooks, not in their own
hands.
Our initiative was designed to break that barrier. Through StemSense, we moved
beyond standard lectures to create a space for noise, experimentation, and questions. We
combined interactive STEM workshops with honest conversations about career paths,
showing students that engineering and technology are accessible fields regardless of their
background. Over the course of the Millennium Fellowship, what started as a plan to
visit schools evolved into a deeper commitment to mentoring, culminating in a reusable
content repository and a network of empowered teachers.
Our work directly advances SDG 4 (Quality Education) and UNAI Principle 5 (Access to Higher Education) by replacing intimidation with inspiration and providing the
practical roadmaps students need to pursue higher studies.
About the Millennium Fellow
Tanish Nilesh Chudiwal is an enthusiastic and visionary third-year B.Tech in Electrical Engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Born and brought up in the small town of Shrirampur, Maharashtra, and subsequently shifting to Pune, Tanish picked up a profound appreciation for community values as well as international outlook. His dedication to social impact is also evident in his philanthropic pursuits, such as donations to Team Trees, and in his entrepreneurial ambitions as the co-founder of Renovia, a startup that germinated at Global Challenge Lab 2024 tackling UN Sustainable Development Goals 11 and 13. He is intrigued by the potential that artificial intelligence holds to change the world and sees a future where he can apply the latest technology to deliver sustainable, equitable solutions to seemingly insurmountable global challenges.
