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.