EP 04 - Namya Joshi, 12 Years old 'TOP TECH SAVY STUDENT OF INDIA’ by Whizjuniors.

Shaping A Fairer World

Namya is from Punjab, a student of Sat Paul Mittal School, studying in Grade VII. She is an excellent orator, dramatist, dancer, writes poetry, sketch artist, State Level Yoga player, skater, swimmer, badminton and basketball player and a voracious reader. She loves to play Minecraft and takes it as a source of meditation. She believes that through gamification in education she can work towards #SDG4. Her tutorials and lessons created in Minecraft can be found on the YouTube. She has won various accolades which includes winner of ‘UNESCO Clubs 2018-2019 Worldwide Youth Multimedia Competition’ for her project “MAGICAL WORLD OF BOOKS LEADING TO #SDG’S 2030”, India’s youngest recipient of E-Innovation Award 2018 by Mugu International Foundation among 27 prominent personalities across the world, Winner of the National Minecraft Competition organised by Microsoft, Ranked as ‘TOP TECH SAVY STUDENT OF INDIA’ by Whizjuniors. She has been invited for #MSFTEduChat, Microsoft OneNote MVP, Microsoft Partner Product Expert to share her views on Minecraft and Flipgrid for the #MSFTEduchat. Being only 12 years old, she feels proud that she has trained more than 100 teachers not only in her school but in her region too to use Minecraft in the classroom. She has conducted various Skype sessions in countries like Vietnam, India, Hungry, Finland to provide training sessions to teachers and students to use Minecraft and Scratch in their class.