student spotlight
By Mallory Arnold
Passion STEMing from Science
New Albany High School student expands peer opportunities
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So Doshi created the STEM Innovators Club, an NAHS organization that guides STEM students through career explorations within the sciences. He invites professionals to speak to the club about what they do and give students the opportunity to ask questions. Thus far, the club has featured a dentist, chemical engineer and pediatric doctor. Doshi hopes to invite an optometrist and a robotics expert this year. One of Doshi’s main goals with the club is to give back to the STEM community. In May 2020, he led a group to write thank you letters to health care heroes around Columbus. “Since a young age, I’ve always been helping the community,” he says. “My parents made sure I knew the importance of that.” This desire to extend a helping hand is why Doshi thought to create the STEM Innovators Club YouTube channel, set to become public this year. While it’s great that New Albany High School students have the opportunity to speak to STEM professionals and experience science firsthand, Doshi wants students from all over Ohio – and the world – to have access to these materials. The YouTube channel is a way to record and share the talks, experiments and other STEM-related projects the STEM Innovators Club is working on. “I have a way to reach different kinds of people in different areas who might not have access to these resources,” Doshi says. “They deserve to have that kind of exposure, too.”
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Not only is Doshi immersed in STEM and hopeful to pursue a career in health care, he also works diligently to support and encourage younger peers to get excited about science. www.healthynewalbanymagazine.com
Photos courtesy of Durshil Doshi
urshil Doshi saw a problem and executed a solution, which is exactly what he hopes to do one day in a career in STEM. Doshi, a senior at New Albany High School, realized that students – his peers and friends included – interested in STEM have a difficult time deciding what branch of science they’d like to pursue as a career. “Kids don’t always get exposed to all potential careers in STEM,” Doshi says. “Some people have no idea what they want to do and just pick to study something in college because it’s what their friends are doing.”
