ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2021
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In 2021, over 25,000 young leaders on 2,000+ campuses across 153 nations applied to join the Class of 2021. 136 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 2,000+ Millennium Fellows. The Class of 2021 is bold, innovative, and inclusive.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT SWASTHI P RAO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2021.
PES University | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 6
" I am excited to be a Millennium Felow as I can be part of a like-minded community all working towards the same goal of making this planet a better place. I am honored to be able to listen to all the ideas from everybody and do my part in making the world more sustainable. Solving world problems by contributing whatever you can has always been my driving force as it makes you feel like you are having a small hand in a big change. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: SeisCore
SeisCore lays an emphasis on the need of an interdisciplinary platform for engineering students of all branches to come together, collaborate, and brainstorm on cross-domain approaches of solving issues in the real-world scenario. While this club is open to everyone, it will ensure that each involvement would maintain an equal ratio of male and female students. Therefore, it advances gender equality and capacity building.
About the Millennium Fellow
Swasthi P Rao is a motivated and bright student at PES University, RR Campus. Consecutively for the first and second year, she has received the prestigious MRD Scholarship for being in the top 20% of scorers which remits 40% of her college tuition. She is creating a development cell for the leadership, tech and management of women, which she has always been very passionate about. Previously in the eighth grade, she has developed a mobile application for creating a marketplace for waste in India, thereby creating a sustainable environment with 4 other girls for a global competition named Technovation. She was mentored by Goldman Sachs, represented India and won the finals at San Francisco. She and her team were personally congratulated by the Indian Prime Minister at the Parliament for her initiative for a cleaner country and an article exclusively about her was released by the Wall Street Journal, USA. She looks forward to solving world issues with technology and raising awareness and contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and a pet project of hers is to teach coding to high school girls so they can come up with their own world changing ideas.
