Our Journey
Inspired and driven by our curiosity towards the sciences, we participated in science fairs across South Florida throughout high school. With every competition, we met more of our remarkably bright and motivated peers from all backgrounds. They felt that doing research and competing in science fairs came with many barriers to entry, particularly as their schools lacked the necessary frameworks and guidance. This apparent unequal distribution of resources troubled us, so we came together and created SciTeens.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between education and opportunity—particularly for under-resourced students—by providing them with mentorship and community on our free online platform. We envision an educational environment where students from all backgrounds have equal access to the resources and network necessary to pursue careers in STEM. By helping students find niche STEM programs in their area to connect them to mentors who can remotely guide them through a project, we’re here to usher in a diverse generation of STEM leaders. We support projects and programs in almost every scientific field and seek to foster an inclusive and supportive virtual environment for learning and growth.
New to our platform? Sign up today as a student or mentor. Let’s revolutionize the way pre-collegiate science is conducted.
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Meet the Team
Angelica Castillejos
Angelica is a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology passionate about data science and Python.
John Sutor
John isn't a mad scientist and doesn't do biology research (despite the photo).
Shang Chen
Shang's hobbies include cooking, working out, and playing the piano.
Akash Patel
Akash is a current computer engineering student at USC.
Carlos Mercado-Lara
Carlos has collected rocks since elementary school.
Gary Wu
Gary was once a top-ten chess player in America.
Erin Kang
Erin has an intense fear of squirrels.
Grace Jiang
Grace's favorite food is ice cream, and she can fold an epic origami bird.
Aarti Kalamangalam
Aarti likes to write.
Iman Khalid
Iman runs, horseback rides, and is on her school's weightlifting team.
Hannah Scaglione
Hannah likes to work out and is interested in pursuing robotic engineering.
Liane Xu
Liane is a high school senior who enjoys traveling, eating, and telling dad jokes.
Ashley Pelton
Ashley enjoys playing Sudoku and is interested in pursuing Neuroscience.
Ohm Parikh
Ohm lived in New Jersey for thirteen years.
Tasman Rosenfeld
Taz's passions consist of aggressively screaming into microphones and catching salamanders.
