Alumni
One summer with our team.
Then, this.
More than 700 children have come to a GenWise summer. The oldest are now at university and beyond. 46 of them, by name, below — and where they went.
Were you a GenWise camper? Add yourself- Johns Hopkins University
- UC San Diego
- University of Wisconsin
- Caltech
- Drexel University
- Georgia Tech
- King's College London
- KIT Karlsruhe
- Minerva University
- NTU Singapore
- Parsons
- Penn State
- RPI
- RWTH Aachen
- UC Berkeley
- UMass
- University of Maryland
- University of Washington
- USC
- BITS Pilani
- Ashoka University
- IIT Bombay
- Azim Premji University
- Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College
- Christ University
- IISER Mohali
- IISER Pune
- IIT Madras
- ILS Law College
- Jindal Global Law School
- Manipal University
- NID Ahmedabad
- NIFT New Delhi
- Nirma University
- Shiv Nadar University
By name
Where they are now, by the summer they came
GSP began in 2022. Summers before that were camps our team ran earlier, under other program names.
2023
- Summer 2023
Arnav Bhatnagar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering
At GenWisePathfinders (2023)
GenWise reaffirmed what I already knew: electronics are awesome!
— Arnav Bhatnagar, now at RPI
Summer 2023Rizak Kaur Makkar
Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, Pune
MBBS
At GenWisePathfinders (2023)
2022
- Summer 2022 & 2023
Maanya Gadekar
Drexel University
Biology
At GenWiseForensics (2022) · Pathfinders (2023)
GenWise helped me narrow down and gain a better idea of what it was that I truly enjoyed doing, and thus really helped me solidify my decision of what field to go into.
— Maanya Gadekar, now at Drexel University
Summer 2022 & 2023Palak Maheshwari
University of California, San Diego
Molecular and Cell Biology
At GenWiseForensics (2022) · Pathfinders (2023) · Intern (2025)
GenWise has taught me to be more flexible — that life has so many open doors and routes, and all of them could be beneficial to my development.

— Palak Maheshwari, now at UC San Diego
- Summer 2022
Agastya A Iyer
IISER Mohali
BS-MS
At GenWiseMathematics (2022)
Definitely cemented my decision to pursue mathematics as a career.
— Agastya A Iyer, now at IISER Mohali
- Summer 2022
Mahima Rajan
University of Washington
Bioengineering
At GenWiseAI & Machine Learning (2022)
- Summer 2022 & 2023
Soha Haldikar
University of Massachusetts
Computer Science
At GenWiseAI & Machine Learning (2022) · Pathfinders (2023)
- Summer 2022
Pranav Prakash
BITS Pilani
Computer Science
At GenWiseAI & Machine Learning (2022)
- Summer 2022
Reva Patel
Nirma University
Product Design
At GenWiseAI & Machine Learning (2022)
2019
- Summer 2019 & 2022
Sanchita Sekhar
NID Ahmedabad
Design
At GenWiseExplorers (2019) · Economics (2022)
- Summer 2019–2021
Thangatirumagal Karthikeyan
NIFT New Delhi
Fashion Technology
At GenWiseExplorers (2019) · Both courses, Winter Program (2021)
- Summer 2019
Shaashvat Sekhar
IIT Bombay
Electrical Engineering
2018
- Summer 2018 & 2019
Arya Dharod
Minerva University
2017
- Summer 2017
Vansh Tibrewal
Caltech
Computer Science
Continuing from his BS to a PhD in computer vision.
- Summer 2017
Maanya Bajaj
Johns Hopkins University
Biomedical Engineering
- Summer 2017
Devaj Gupta
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Placed first in the world in the Avogadro Chemistry Exam.
- Summer 2017
Kian Jagtiani
University of Southern California
Economics, Mathematics and Physics
Research assistant in USC's theoretical cosmology lab.
- Summer 2017
Rishi Rajesh
University of Maryland
- Summer 2017
Simarna Paintal
Parsons School of Design, New York
Fashion Design & Journalism
- Summer 2017
Karan Kapadia
Penn State University
- Summer 2017
Prakriti Janbandhu
IIT Bombay
On IIT Bombay's Mars Rover team.
- Summer 2017
Takshit Aggarwal
IIT Bombay
Electrical Engineering
- Summer 2017
Vishnu Peddineni
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
Dual BE + MS
- Summer 2017
Ishan Yellurkar
Ashoka University
- Summer 2017
Pavit Maheshwari
Ashoka University
- Summer 2017
Kushi Athreya
Shiv Nadar University
BSc
- Summer 2017
Taaraksh Chawla
Jindal Global Law School
Law
- Summer 2017
Omkar Satyapal
ILS Law College, Pune
BA LLB
- Summer 2017
Susan Mani
Christ University, Bengaluru
- Summer 2017 & 2018
Asher Kaul
King's College London
Law
At GenWiseData Science · Wicked Problems
- Summer 2017
Aarush Mehrotra
University of California, San Diego
Mathematics & Computer Science, Economics minor
- Summer 2017 & 2018
Rutuja Gupte
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Genetics & Genomics, Data Science
Dean's List, with Honors in Research, and a Genetics & Genomics Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2024).
- Summer 2017
Charu Hari
Azim Premji University
2016
- Summer 2016
Rupasri Chalavadi
Johns Hopkins University
Neuroscience & Computer Science, then a Master's (CS / Data Science)
Her first taste of neuroscience was at the Summer Program.
- Summer 2016
Siddarth V
Ashoka University
Economics & Mathematics
- Summer 2016
Janmay Shukla
Manipal University
Computer Science Engineering
- Summer 2016
Ayush Baweja
Georgia Tech
Computer Science Engineering
- Summer 2016 & 2017
Pranit Bhansali
BITS Pilani
Chemical Engineering
- Summer 2016 & 2017
Ishaan Desai
BITS Pilani
Chemical Engineering
- Summer 2016 & 2017
Shrey Modi
University of Wisconsin
Computer Science Engineering
- Summer 2016
Aritra Biswas
BITS Pilani
Mechanical Engineering
Great experience. Learnt hands on skills that are invaluable to this day.
— Aritra Biswas, now at BITS Pilani
- Summer 2016
Ryth Dasgupta
IISER Pune
BS-MS
2015
- Summer 2015, 2016 & 2017
Aneesh Kamat
RWTH Aachen University
MSc Physics (Quantum Technology)
IIT Bombay (Engineering Physics), now on the RWTH Quantum Technology Scholarship.
Read the storyAt GenWisePhysics of Propulsion (2015) · Global Politics & Foreign Policy (2016) · Nuclear Physics (2017)
- Summer 2015, 2016 & 2017
Ansh Mehta
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Mechanical Engineering
2014
- Summer 2014
Yamini Prashanth
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Bioengineering & Business (double major)
- Summer 2014
Sachin Ramu
IIT Madras
Computer Science
Now at Microsoft.
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