The Chinmaya Mission Bala Vihar Graduation is a culmination of the spiritual education that children receive over a period in Bala Vihar. This year, we have 10 graduates.
\nFrom left to right:<\/p>\n
Tanush Sistla<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Roshen Sanjay Nair<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Khavya Balamurugan<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Srikrishna Sanved Prasannan<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Gowri Ganesh<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Kavya Ananth<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Maansi Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Some Accomplishments: Sanika Bedre<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Jhanvi Venkitesh<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: Rainah Rajan<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 College Attending: The Graduation Song Written and Composed by Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda<\/strong><\/p>\n abhi-nandana abhi-nandanam<\/em> Greetings and congratulations on your graduation. The Chinmaya Mission Bala Vihar Graduation is a culmination of the spiritual education that children receive over a period in Bala Vihar. This year, we have 10 graduates. From left to right: Tanush Sistla \u2022 College Attending: \u2013 Oregon State University \u2013 Biophysics \u2022 Some Accomplishments: \u2022 Lab Research at Doernbecher & OHSU \u2022 Presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balavihargraduates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2013 Oregon State University
\n\u2013 Biophysics
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n\u2022 Lab Research at Doernbecher & OHSU
\n\u2022 Presidential Volunteer Service Award
\n\u2022 Presidential Scholar Semi-Finalist
\n\u2022 Science National Honors Society President
\n\u2022 Director of Education for Mission:Citizen
\n\u2022 President of Various Lincoln STEM Clubs (CS, Science Bowl, Medicine, etc.)
\n\u2022 Through Chinmaya Mission:
\n\u2022 ELL Tutoring
\n\u2022 Homeless Shelter cooking
\n\u2022 CORDUSA Service Visit
\n\u2022 Walk for CORD Event<\/p>\n
\n– Stanford University
\n– Mathematics & Computer Science
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n\u2022 Founder and Principal Instructor at Roshen’s Chess Academy. Trained more than 300 students.
\n\u2022 Eagle Scout
\n\u2022 Selected by Stanford University & Ross for graduate level math programs.
\n\u2022 Math Kangaroo\/AMC – National\/State Topper
\n\u2022 National Merit Scholarship Winner
\n\u2022 Captain of State Championship winning math\/chess teams
\n\u2022 Won multiple Oregon State Chess Championships and a National Chess Championship.
\n\u2022 FIDE National Chess Instructor
\n\u2022 Oregon Chess Federation Board of Director & Secretary
\n\u2022 Beaverton Mayor’s Youth Advisory Board Member
\n\u2022 President’s Volunteer Service Award – Gold
\n\u2022 Carnatic vocalist and Bollywood dancer
\n\u2022 Taekwondo Black Belt<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Case Western Reserve University
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n– Volunteering in local museum and hospitals
\n– Worked with children\u2019s child development
\n\u2013 Through Chinmaya Mission:
\n\u2022 ELL Tutoring<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 University of Oregon
\n\u2013 Architecture Major, Audio Production Minor
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n\u2022 Performing Ghatam Artist
\n\u2022 Eagle Scout
\n\u2022 National Honors Society
\n\u2022 Pearl Rotary Student of the Month
\n\u2022 Presidential Volunteer Service Award
\n\u2022 Co – President Indian Student Union
\n\u2022 Head, Student School Ambassador
\n\u2022 Audio Engineering Tech Crew
\n\u2022 Through Chinmaya Mission:
\n\u2022 Homeless Shelter Cooking
\n\u2022 Volunteering Chinmaya Events<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 University of Minnesota (Honors College)
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n\u2022 Co-president of Westview Theatre Troupe
\n\u2022 Acted in many mainstage productions at Northwest Children\u2019s Theater
\n\u2022 8 years of Bharatanatyam, 6 years of piano
\n\u2022 Through Chinmaya Mission:
\n\u2022 Presidential Service Award (Gold) for ELL tutoring (6 years)
\n\u2022 Homeless shelter cooking
\n\u2022 Led theatre summer camps for kids<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Case Western or Univ of Washington
\n\u2022 Accomplishments:
\n\u2022 Represented through school :
\n\u2022 Mock Trial 2x Nationals\/Captain for 2 years of JV
\n\u2022 IFTJ at Capitol Hill
\n\u2022 Started\/Lead Jesuit Refugee Club
\n\u2022 201 Service club
\n\u2022 Completed:
\n\u2022 Oregon Seal of Bilteracy (Spanish).
\n\u2022 Level 8 Piano
\n\u2022 Odissi Dancer
\n\u2022 National Honor Society
\n\u2022 Through Chinmaya Mission:
\n\u2022 ELL Tutoring, National Geeta Chanting Competition, Homeless Shelter Cooking<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
\n\u2022 Computer Science and Philosophy<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Founder of Encode Justice (EJ) Oregon Chapter
\n\u2013 Work with schools, OR DOJ and OR DOE on Data Privacy law and AI Education Policies
\n\u2013 NMSC Finalist
\n\u2013 Princeton Prize in Race Relations
\n\u2013 GE Reagan Scholarship Semifinalist
\n\u2013 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing award
\n\u2013 Spanish Seal of Biliteracy
\n\u2013 United Nations AI\/Human Rights presenter and Youth Observer for UN Human Rights Declaration Project
\n\u2013 First Tech Challenge World Championship Semi Finalist and Oregon State Competition EMCEE
\n\u2013 Ethics Bowl
\n\u2013 Rose Haven YOB Member
\n\u2013 Through Chinmaya:
\n\u2022 Homeless Shelter Cooking and Adopt-A-Road Program<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 University of Washington
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n\u2022 2nd degree Black Belt
\n\u2022 Leader of South Asian Culture Club
\n\u2022 Certified CNA
\n\u2022 Sangeetha
\n\u2022 Level 7 Piano
\n\u2022 201 Club
\n\u2022 National Honor Society
\n\u2022 Can speak Chinese
\n\u2022 Through Chinmaya Mission:
\n\u2022 ELL Tutoring
\n\u2022 Homeless Shelter cooking
\n\u2022 Gold Presidential Service Award<\/p>\n
\n– Pennstate
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n\u2013 Captain of Three year
\nState Champions in High School Dance
\n\u2013 National Honor Society Secretary
\n\u2013 Science Ambassador mentor
\n\u2013 National Ambassador – When We All Vote
\n\u2013 DDCA Diversity Scholarship winner
\n\u2022 Lacey Beaty \u2013 Beaverton Mayor Campaign
\n\u2022 I-Mission – Helping Food Delivery Fund Raising
\n\u2022 Covid mask delivery
\n\u2022 Chinmaya Activities
\n\u2022 ESL tutoring
\n\u2022 Shelter Cooking<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 University of Oregon #scoducks
\n\u2013 Public policy and management\/political science major, women\u2019s and gender studies minor
\n\u2022 Some Accomplishments:
\n– Volunteer and peer-to-peer educator with Planned Parenthood
\n– Part of APANO\u2019s TARO program
\n– Portland Youth Climate Strike<\/p>\n
\nd\u012bksh\u0101nta-k\u0101le abhi-nandanam<\/em>
\nudyamena hi vardhate yasha<\/em>
\nkuru karma tva sarvad\u0101 tata<\/em>
\nsvasti va sad\u0101 shobhane pathi<\/em>
\npr\u0101rthay\u0101mahe \u012bshvara prati<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDiligence alone brings recognition;
\ntherefore, be committed to action.
\nAs you walk the path noble,
\nwe pray God makes you truly able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"