When 13-year-old Ludhiana girl impressed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
NEW DELHI: Namya Joshi, a seventh-grader from Sat Paul Mittal School in Ludhiana loves training teachers and has been a crusader for making learning fun through technology. Joshi, 13, has been helping teachers — not only at her school but across the globe — convert classroom lessons into interactive Minecraft sessions. For her, Minecraft is a great platform and "if children do not like reading books, one can make them take interest in Minecraft".
Namya who has conducted multiple Skype sessions for both teachers and students to initiate them into the use of Minecraft in classes, met Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on stage at the 'Young Innovators' Summit' in the capital on Tuesday, leaving the Indian-origin executive impressed to his core.
"We need to reformulate the relationship between technology and learning. It is very interesting to witness the way young innovators think today," Nadella told the gathering. "What excited and inspired me from my meetings with students was the quality of their ideas, the scope of their ambition, deep passion and deep empathy turning into action. This is truly transformative, and is how societies and economies move forward," he added. The 'Young Innovators' Summit' brought together over 250 students and educators in Delhi NCR.
In conversation with Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India, Nadella spoke about the role that technology will play in transforming the education ecosystem over the next decade, outlining the opportunity students have today to solve some of the world's most pressing problems with technology. For example, the "OrganSecure" platform, built by Pratik Mohapatra, uses a sophisticated set of machine learning algorithms to quickly match organ donors with recipients, providing real-time updates to people in need of a transplant.
"While watching a web series that revolves around organ donation, I realized the pain and emotional trauma people go through when waiting for a transplant. I started digging deeper about the problem and spoke to doctors at leading hospitals in Bengaluru to comprehend the magnitude of the issue," said Mohapatra. A coding enthusiast, Mohapatra has been developing apps since he was 14. (IANS)
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