Devika Manoj
2020 Fellow
HERlead Fellow
United States
Devika is a senior at Lambert High School in Suwanee, Georgia. She is the founder of Blooming Seeds (bloomingseeds.weebly.com), an international youth run organization providing free science education for children with disabilities while creating a space where people with and without special needs can interact. To date, the organization has reached over 1600 people and Devika has personally organized over 50 science workshops reaching special needs youth in 15 states and 5 countries. With the grant, Devika hopes to bring free science workshops to underprivileged special needs communities such as orphans, refugees, and low-income households.