Namrita Narula

• I harnessed my passion for social change and entrepreneurship by founding Seeds of Knowledge, a project designed to educate children about nutrition and healthy eating through gardening, and to help fight hunger in my community.
• In March 2015, I partnered with the Highland Park Community Nursery School and installed an outdoor garden consisting of four raised beds and a digging box. The children maintain the garden, eat the vegetables, and learn firsthand where food comes from.
• In January 2016, I installed five hydroponic garden towers in each of the school’s classrooms to provide children with a year round gardening experience and a supply of fresh vegetables for their lunches, which are prepared on site.
• I work with the children weekly on activities related to gardening and nutrition.

• Through my project Seeds of Knowledge, I also work to fight hunger in my community. I want all community members to have access to nutritious and fresh food, not just canned food.
• Through Seeds of Knowledge, I have donated over 1,600 pounds of fresh vegetables to the Moraine Township Food Pantry and collected $21,036 in monetary and goods donations.
• I organized and hosted Highland Park’s first Empty Bowls Fundraiser. 500 community members attended the event, and I raised over $9,000 for the local food pantry.
• I have transformed 3 old parking meters into creative donation stations and installed them in downtown Highland Park. The five-feet meters now resemble a giant carrot, a bright green meter with fruits and vegetables and the words “END HUNGER” painted on it, and a giant green pea pod.
• I purchase produce for The Moraine Township Food Pantry using all of the change collected from the donation station meters.
• For the past two summers, I have had a garden plot at the community garden. I maintained the plot and grew and harvested over 150 pounds of vegetables, which I donated to the local food pantry.
• For more information on Seeds of Knowledge please visit: www.facebook.com/seedsofknowledge.us
• I am the co-founder of Tree Hugs, a project aimed to help individuals stay warm during Chicago’s brutal winter months. We collect winter wear and hang them on trees in the Chicagoland.
• Since founding Tree Hugs in the winter of 2015, we have collected over 300 coats and 1,200 items of winter apparel (scarves, gloves, and hats) and wrapped them around trees in local communities for those in need during the winter season.
• For more information and images, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/treehugschicago.

Sachin Govind

• Attending Johns Hopkins University, currently holds 4.0 GPA and is ranked top in class
• Represented the United States at the International Student Science Fair for work done in cardiology research
• Aside from excelling in academics, I volunteer too. Currently volunteer in the Pediatric and Adult Emergency Departments at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Got promoted to the Research and Special Projects Coordinator in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
• In sports, I hold a 2nd Degree Black Belt in the Instructor position in Tae Kwon Do.
• Involved with research and has completed four research investigations, spanning oncology, theoretical computer science, cardiology, and machine learning in medicine.
• For the research in angiology and cardiology, got selected to be one of the United States delegates to the International Student Science Fair in Melbourne, Australia, where I won an award for outstanding oral presentation.
• Link to supplementary pictures/videos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6zesu_RREX3R0d3cmpTQmtPMUE?usp=sharing

• Roni 14 year Old, Young Hollywood actor. He debuted in award winning  Hollywood movie “Growing Up Smith” in lead/title role which was released in US on Feb 3rd 2017. It has received very good feedback, for his lead role as Smith “http://growingupsmithmovie.com/“. This movie was picked up as TIME magazine as movie of the week in its opening week
• Roni’s acting has been appraised by several media including Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Daily herald, Sun times etc..  (front page coverage) http://teenplicity.com/growing-up-roni-akurati/
• He has been acting in Hollywood for the past 5 years with an impressive resume at this young age. "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4803098/“
• He is been interviewed by more than 20 TV/News outlets across US and India. https://www.youtube.com/Roniakurati in the past few months
• In the recent past he acted on several TV series, on NBC, Fox Network, Nickelodeon, Amazon and Yahoo original series
• He acted along with Ben Stillar in Comedy Central TV
• A standup comedian and performed at Hollywood Improv theater where Jerry Seinfeld started his career at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiWr7-YH7qo
• Won several community awards for his acting
• Roni started acting at young age of 7 and became popular with his role as Tiny Tim in Christmas Carole at Goodman Theater Chicago. He was interviewed by all top TV news channels
• Roni also played as Mowgli in Disney play “The Jungle Book” at Chicago and Boston theaters