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
Jumping into the Research Pool: The Water is Lovely
Led by John Gardezi
Student Panelists: Arihant Choudhary, Tavis Chen, Padma Lim, Luke Jain
How I Got Where I Am
Mentor Panelists - Gokul Ramadoss, Sarah Schreck, Chiaki Santiago and Nora Lessersohn
STEM Student Talks
Click the session titles below to view the videos.
Hiba Bidar, Vasanth Gogineni, Hayden Ma, Ece Turhal
Ishaan Bhargava, Sammith Singamsetty, Jacob Rojit, Tyler Kuo, Tanisha Joshi
Phuc (Jack) Le, Kyoungmin Lee, Chandana Akasapu
Audrey Ajakaye, Aditya Shetty, Shirzad Mustafa, Julie Qi
Claire Lim, Katie Walsh, Angela Predolac, Sanjana Srimath
Abhi Varadarajan, Youssef Abdelhalim, Amaan Rather, Avinash Patel
Sage Haroche, Victor Myrna, Arul Shrivastava, Parth Kocheta, Rithika Beerelli
Christopher Tomeo, Vivek Inumella, Nandhika Nurakula, Arushi Sharma
Sabrina Toor, Ekansh Kushwaha, Khushi Kethana
Anya Gurudatt, Finlay Hastings, Sophia Dettweiler, Ojasvi Mudda
Rajiv Koliwad, Anwita Satapathy, Ashvin Loghashankar, Aneeka Sawarkar, Meera Bhakta
Rachel Wiley, Layla Adeli, Kabir Ramzan, Tarun Rao, Tanisha Mehta
Rohit Duggaraju, Krrishika Saxena, Noora Mathur, Preethi Nalluru
Rohil Shah, Savio Joseph, Pranav Karthik, Mithra Senthil, Rishi Gurjar
Nathan Su, Ryan Aminloo, Arnav Kethana, Sonia Fereidooni, Mahati Manda
Ashna Khemani, Akilesh Kale, Olivia Snyder, Sonya Surapaneni
Aditii Srinivasan, Katie Katerndahl, Teesha Sreeram, Aditya Mangalampalli
Dhanya Sethuraman, Kristen Yu, Pranav Tatavarti, Lauren Stoffel
Humanities Student Talks
Click the session titles below to view the videos.
Sehoon "Sammy" Baek, Alyssa Truong
Marley Melbourne, Skye Gohlinghorst, Daniel Youssef, Devon Thompson, Rachana Kadikar
Amonda Li, Srinidhi Nagarajan, Paige Collier, Mackenzie Hoey
Benjamin Malo, Gokul Velayoudame, Subhadra Vadlamannati, Keshav Srikant
Allison Lowe, Grace Wang, Geetika Mahajan
Tanmay Lakhotia, Sabrina Lopez, Samantha Huebner, Ivanka SooHoo
Elevator pitches
Click the link below to watch the student elevator pitch competition.
Ariana Abhari, Emma Hill, Fahad Hamdan, Jason Qian, Jennifer Sauter, Laura Cumper, Mira Kunz, Satvik Sharma, Shriya Srinivasan, Mirika Jambudi