Escape Velocity Grants

Apoorva is a material science aspirant and wants to pursue a PhD in it. She will use this money to pay for applications to institutes. She has an impressive track record: http://apoorvapjoshi.com

Shefali Gupta with a grant of Rs 50k will buy material and equipment to help independent handloom artisans of Odisha create and sell their work. Hopefully, she will be able to multiply the impact towards changing many lives. This grant is sponsored by an anonymous person.

Niwas Sathi will start the first-of-its-kind school for kids who’ve suffered from

gender dysphoria. Hopefully, this grant of Rs 50k will give the startup capital for his dream and eventually this school becomes a permanent institution. This grant is sponsored by @ritishri

Saif Ullah Khan wants to train underprivileged kids in

Rugby. With this money, he’ll be able to not buy equipment for them and hopefully not just make the kids stronger but give them meaning and character. This grant is sponsored by an anonymous person.

Vineet runs a school for underprivileged kids in a village near Allahabad, UP 200 kids from surrounding areas get primary education from him With this grant (sponsored by an anonymous person), he will buy a laptop + projector to upgrade quality of education for these kids

Sarumathi is an electrical engineering graduate who is passionate about environment conservation and biodiversity protection. With this grant (sponsored by an anonymous person), she will be able to pay fee for a masters course in environment conservation.

Shriya Shankar makes free maths educational content in Kanada. It’s unique because it reaches an audience that’s not comfortable with English: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zYwd5iZdyBA This grant (sponsored by an anonymous person) will help create such local language videos on science.

Sowyma is due for her final CA exams but due to covid-related financial stress has to take up a full-time job. This grant (which is sponsored by

@augfrank) will help her take a part-time job instead and focus on studies to finish her CA with top grades.

Smriti Prabhu is a national-level rifle shooter. Her only goal is to win a gold medal for India in Olympics and become the first woman to do so. This grant will help her upgrade her rifle so she has a better shot at her goal.

Sainadh Chityala wants to build a self-driving car for Indian roads. He’s passionate about physics and writes a publication about tech and its role in the future of human civilization: semisentient.medium.com