Students Are Teachers at Urbana STEMM

This time on the Anatomy in Clay® Learning System podcast, a chat with Dr. Amit Kumar and four students from Urbana STEMM in Urbana, Maryland. The four students are all ninth-graders - Rhea Ramesh, Aarna Chakavarty, Ritika Rajesh, and Hamsini Chintala. In his professional life, Dr. Kumar is a Health Science Administrator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health. He started at NIH as a post-doctoal fellow and has stayed at NIH since 1998, leading to his current position. Dr. Kumar enjoys volunteering his time for the community. Dr. Kumar has been engaging students (Elementary, Middle and High schools) in many educational and community activities through his non profit organization Urbana STEMM. (The second 'M' stands for Mindfulness.) The program recruits and trains high schoolers who then go on to teach math, robotics, human anatomy and other STEMM related activities. Many of his volunteers have earned awards including the presidential service award from AmeriCorp and awards from Point of Light and Frederick County government and education boards. The students in the program also engage in lot of community activities and programs such as community gardens, community road and park and nature wood cleaning, food and book drives, battery recycling to name a few, Dr. Kumar is also the Maryland coordinator of Recycle My Battery organization, which has about 60 student members in Frederick. Through their efforts, they have recycled about 30,000 batteries in Frederick and educated thousands of residents. Dr. Kumar also volunteers with local and national organizations such as Asian American Center of Frederick, Ekal Foundation and Northsouth Foundation that generate funds from their social and educational activities in the US to help underprivileged kids in tribal and poor villages of India. More about Urbana STEMM: Intro and Outro music "Vicious Pen" courtesy of Moby Gratis

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Students Are Teachers at Urbana STEMM is an episode from Anatomy in Clay® Learning System Podcast by Mark Stevens.

This episode is 40:17 long.

This episode was published on May 30, 2024.

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