5th Symposium of Rising Scholars

On September 18th, 2021, we welcomed 120 student presenters and over 560 attendees from across the globe to present at the largest Symposium to date. The event also featured a keynote address and expert panels.

Awards presentation!

Watch Polygence co-founders announce the recipients of awards from this Symposium. All categories were extremely competitive.

Keynote Address

Dr. Margot Gerritsen, Data Science Professor at Stanford University

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Jumping into the Research Pool: The Water is Lovely

Panel: Using Research in College Admission

Led by John Gardezi

Student Panelists: Arihant Choudhary, Tavis Chen, Padma Lim, Luke Jain

Finding Internships & Work Experience

Mentor Panelists - Selena Lorrey and Kiara Manosalvas

How I Got Where I Am

Mentor Panelists - Gokul Ramadoss, Sarah Schreck, Chiaki Santiago and Nora Lessersohn

Session 1

Hiba Bidar, Vasanth Gogineni, Hayden Ma, Ece Turhal

Session 2

Ishaan Bhargava, Sammith Singamsetty, Jacob Rojit, Tyler Kuo, Tanisha Joshi

Session 3:

Phuc (Jack) Le, Kyoungmin Lee, Chandana Akasapu

Session 4

Audrey Ajakaye, Aditya Shetty, Shirzad Mustafa, Julie Qi

Session 7

Claire Lim, Katie Walsh, Angela Predolac, Sanjana Srimath

Session 8

Abhi Varadarajan, Youssef Abdelhalim, Amaan Rather, Avinash Patel

Session 9

Sage Haroche, Victor Myrna, Arul Shrivastava, Parth Kocheta, Rithika Beerelli

Session 10

Christopher Tomeo, Vivek Inumella, Nandhika Nurakula, Arushi Sharma

Session 13

Sabrina Toor, Ekansh Kushwaha, Khushi Kethana

Session 14

Anya Gurudatt, Finlay Hastings, Sophia Dettweiler, Ojasvi Mudda

Session 15

Rajiv Koliwad, Anwita Satapathy, Ashvin Loghashankar, Aneeka Sawarkar, Meera Bhakta

Session 16

Rachel Wiley, Layla Adeli, Kabir Ramzan, Tarun Rao, Tanisha Mehta

Session 17

Rohit Duggaraju, Krrishika Saxena, Noora Mathur, Preethi Nalluru

Session 19

Rohil Shah, Savio Joseph, Pranav Karthik, Mithra Senthil, Rishi Gurjar

Session 20

Nathan Su, Ryan Aminloo, Arnav Kethana, Sonia Fereidooni, Mahati Manda

Session 21

Ashna Khemani, Akilesh Kale, Olivia Snyder, Sonya Surapaneni

Session 22

Aditii Srinivasan, Katie Katerndahl, Teesha Sreeram, Aditya Mangalampalli

Session 23

Dhanya Sethuraman, Kristen Yu, Pranav Tatavarti, Lauren Stoffel

Session 5

Sehoon "Sammy" Baek, Alyssa Truong

Session 6

Marley Melbourne, Skye Gohlinghorst, Daniel Youssef, Devon Thompson, Rachana Kadikar

Session 11

Amonda Li, Srinidhi Nagarajan, Paige Collier, Mackenzie Hoey

Session 12

Benjamin Malo, Gokul Velayoudame, Subhadra Vadlamannati, Keshav Srikant

Session 18

Allison Lowe, Grace Wang, Geetika Mahajan

Session 24

Tanmay Lakhotia, Sabrina Lopez, Samantha Huebner, Ivanka SooHoo

Session 1

Blake Tretter, Chahel Nerusu

Session 2

Israel Hernandez, Arshia Roy, Daniel Kuo, Jeffrey Kong, Samiksha Sriram

Session 3

Bakhtawar Parvez, Dhruv Dingari, Medha Das, Stella Raimondi, Vy Hoang

Watch

Ariana Abhari, Emma Hill, Fahad Hamdan, Jason Qian, Jennifer Sauter, Laura Cumper, Mira Kunz, Satvik Sharma, Shriya Srinivasan, Mirika Jambudi