Shooting Stars Foundation Creates Inaugural Governing Board of Directors to Increase Program Growth and Student Impact

Shooting Stars Foundation Creates Inaugural Governing Board of Directors to Increase Program Growth and Student Impact Latha Narayannan, Co-Founder, CEO, and Vice Chairperson, Brian McCann, Chairperson, and Kevin Lee, Uma Meyyappan and Dawna Taylor as Directors. Shooting Stars Foundation (SSF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that empowers youth to break the cycle of generational poverty […]

Rangeela 2021

View All Events EVENT Rangeela 2021 Date 28th August 2021 Location Portland, OR Description A unique outdoor cultural stage event with traditional mat seating. Event was designed with Covid in mind at every stage from ticket purchase to planned spaced to socially distanced seating pods. Wonderful live performances: 26 different items performed very enthusiastically by […]

Shooting Stars Hosts All Girls Hackathon – Reaches 600+ young women

Date: August 7th, 2021Location: Virtual The All Girls Hackathon by Shooting Stars Foundation garners hundreds of registrants girls from 85 countries, encourages them to pursue programming The Shooting Stars Foundation hosted an international all girl hackathon event at the beginning of August. 600 girls from over 85 countries registered for this event. The participants were […]

Shooting Stars and EAH Housing Host HTML Web Design Camp

Date: July 19th- July 23rdLocation: Virtual We at SSF are excited to announce a new partnership with EAH Inc. With missions well aligned, we hosted our first program together on July 19th-23rd. The camp centered around exposing students to new STEM technologies and applications – specifically HTML web design. We had more than 25 registrants […]

Varun Nair, Quality Analyst, Capgemini

I’m from Peraiahgari Palli village, Chittoor district. I live with my father, mother and younger sister. My father is a farmer, who struggled very hard to provide education for me and my sister. I always explore Engineering as my career path and build necessary skills for my future. Once I completed Intermediate, I was perturbed […]

Srinivas Krishna, QA in Samsung, Chennai

I was brought up in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. I lost my father in an accident and it felt like your life has fallen apart and you are caught up in a whirlwind. I eventually got my feet back on the ground, moved to a hostel and have been experiencing hostel life for nearly 12 […]