Humans of DV: Week 22

Risha Chakraborty: “I call myself a bio nerd.  It's something that has been almost the unilateral focus of my life for about the past four years, and it's going to be for the rest of my life. I found something that I really like. I love it, and I'm going to do it. Science is one of those things where it's, you know you have all this natural curiosity and it's where you direct it. You want to under...

Pujitha Nachuri: “From taking singing and piano lessons during my childhood to joining my school’s strings and later band program, music has been an integral part of my life. In 6th grade, I decided that I wanted to try band I wasn’t quite sure what instrument to pick, but I knew I wanted something with a sound that was in between, both high and low. Thus appealed the French horn, and it just ...

Madison Dee: “I like to play soccer, I’ve been playing since I was 8 or 9, I can’t remember. I started because I had these 2 best friends and they inspired me to play. They actually moved to Barca[Barcelona]  to continue their soccer, so that kinda inspired me. I started playing soccer later than others but I feel like I have improved a lot. I usually play three times a week, but this week it�...

Ariya Salva: “I started volunteering with the red cross a few years ago at the blood center and the whole environment was so wholesome and I was like this organization puts so much for people when it comes to helping people in natural disasters to giving blood to trauma patients so I decided to become an officer to give other kids at Dougherty an opportunity to participate in this organization. A...