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Washington DC '24
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Akesh Mallia

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Student at George Washington University and School Without Walls HS.

About

Akesh Mallia is a dually enrolled high school senior at School Without Walls HS aiming to be an Aerospace Engineer. In junior and senior year, he has attended the George Washington University full-time to graduate with an Associate of Arts this spring. He teaches introductory calculus to undergraduates, captains the Policy Debate Team, and is the founder and leader of the high school Space Club. Outside of school, he has interned at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to work on instrumentation for a cube satellite, and he has published peer-reviewed research on computational chemistry. Within the community, he teaches astronomy to local middle school students in an outreach program by the Carnegie Academy for Science Education. Next year, he will be studying engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Posse Scholar, a full-tuition leadership scholarship.


On the agenda

  1. Great Debate

    May. 17 '24, 04:00pm
    Debate
    The Forum (South)

    Should the Humanitarian Sector have its own satellites? A lively debate between alternative worldviews.

    Moderators

    1. Akesh Mallia

    Speakers

    1. Rhiannan Price
    2. Bill Greer
    3. Ziad Al Achkar, PhD
    4. Mark Iliffe, PhD

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Sponsors

Platinum

  1. NASA Lifelines

Bronze

  1. Element84

  2. Esri

  3. Impact Observatory

  4. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)


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