Diya Nair

Meet Diya:
Diya Nair is a junior attending Nashua High School South. As early as elementary school, Diya and her team qualified for First Lego league robotics regionally. In middle school, Diya attended the Academy for Science and Design to further her interest in STEM. She was exposed to even more technology after taking courses from Computer Science to Engineering & Technology. Diya was chosen to represent her 2018 middle school graduating class in the Academy for Science and Design as a role model in STEM. As a freshman in Nashua High School South, Diya's passion and interest in technology and STEM led her to be nominated by her High School as a STEM advocate for Women and Late Bloomers for a High School Tedx talk which was broadcasted by the Nashua ETV. Diya is also part of the Nashua High School South Innovations Club. As part of the Innovations Club team, Diya and her team developed a mobile app for School Safety which would help with early detection of school shootings and other threats.  This app qualified as one of the five state finalist teams in NH for the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition. With her increased interest, Diya is now the Vice President of Innovations Club at Nashua High South as a junior.  Using her web technology and software skills, Diya is currently the Webmaster of National Honor Society Chapter at her high school, President and Editor-in-Chief of Panther Prints, the student-run newspaper of Nashua High South. During quarantine, Diya was accepted into a highly selective 6-week Data Science for Social Good Summer Intensive Program, and created Covoogle- a COVID-19 and Google Trends Data Visualization to predict future COVID-19 hotspots.  Diya has also immensely expanded her knowledge in computer science by exploring deeper into Java and Python through the Girls Who Code Summer Intensive Program and Root Tech Computer Science Summer Program. Diya has also delved into entrepreneurship this past year, through TiE Young Entrepreneurs as the COO of Off the Rack, a time-efficient and cost effective tool that allows users to express their individuality through their clothes and experiment with their fashion. Diya was also accepted into the 2020 Fidelity Boundless Fellowship, where she learned lifelong financial and entrepreneurship lessons and opportunities from inspirational women all across the Fidelity board. Most recently, Diya has self-taught herself Xcode and Swift to participate in New Hampshire’s Second District Congressional App Challenge, creating Covid Salud app which strives to help the Latinx community which has been disproportionately affected in this pandemic. Covid Salud is an IOS app which helps the Latinx community with their physical, mental, and emotional well-being, by presenting  essential information from the CDC and other trusted resources about Covid-19 and wellness in Spanish. With these interests, Diya plans to major in Computational and Cognitive Science.