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Harshit Chaturvedy

Student · Developer · TEDx Speaker · STEM Advocate

Motivated 10th-grade STEM innovator passionate about technology, leadership, and youth education. Founder of STEM Sprouts and TEDx speaker dedicated to inspiring the next generation.

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Portrait of Harshit Chaturvedy — Founder of STEM Sprouts and TEDx speaker from Cumming, GA
Cumming, GAHarshit Chaturvedy
TEDx Speaker
About

Building the future, one project at a time.

An ambitious high-school student with a passion for technology, public speaking, and leadership. I'm committed to making STEM education accessible to all while building innovative solutions — from founding a youth-led nonprofit to speaking on the TEDx stage.

Based in Cumming, GA · Class of 2029 · Student · Developer · TEDx Speaker · STEM Advocate

  • 1Global nonprofit founded

    STEM Sprouts — chapters in 4 countries

  • 2Active research labs

    UIUC formal verification · NSRI PPI ML

  • 1TEDx stage

    TEDx Cumming — The Social Media Illusion

Skills

  • Public Speaking
  • Leadership
  • Problem Solving & Creativity
  • Event Planning
  • Collaboration & Teamwork
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Time Management & Organization
  • Python
  • HTML & CSS

Languages

  • English (Fluent)
  • Hindi (Fluent)
  • Spanish (Basic)
  • Oriya (Basic)

Recognition

Plaques, podiums, and a few certificates — newest first.

  • Introduction to Programming · 1st Place
    Georgia FBLA · State Leadership Conference

    Placed 1st in the competitive presentation event at the 2026 Georgia State Leadership Conference; advanced to the National Leadership Conference in San Antonio, TX.

  • TEDx Johns Creek · Youth Innovator Award
    TEDx Johns Creek

    Recognized for cross-functional contribution to TED's mission of spreading ideas and fostering local intellectual discourse.

  • Business Achievement Award (BAA) · Four Level
    National Future Business Leaders of America

    Completed all four BAA levels — Contributor, Leader, Advocate, and Capstone.

Experience

Leadership, research, and a whole lot of learning.

From founding a global nonprofit to formal verification research, the roles that have shaped how I build, lead, and serve.

  1. Founder & Executive Director

    Pinned

    STEM Sprouts

    · 1 yr 6 mos
    Feb 2025 — Present
    • Founded STEM Sprouts, defined its organizational identity, and built the framework governing its ongoing operations.
    • Served 1000+ students through workshops and the pinboard.stem-sprouts.org app.
    • Growing chapters internationally across the United States, Canada, India, and Kenya.

  2. Research Assistant

    Pinned

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    · 5 mos
    Mar 2026 — Present
    • Research Intern at UIUC (ECE/CS 584) — formal verification of embedded and cyberphysical systems to guarantee the safety of ML-enabled architectures.
    • Formulating satisfiability and optimization-based frameworks with Gurobi (MILP / LP) to verify neural-network classification requirements.
    • Implementing bound propagation techniques (CROWN, Alpha-CROWN) over non-feedforward networks with skip connections and Hardtanh activations.
    • Performing reachability and invariance analysis to characterize robustness against perturbations in safety-critical environments.

  3. Webmaster & Youth Leader

    TEDx Johns Creek

    · 6 mos
    Feb 2026 — Present
    • Built and manage the official TEDx Johns Creek web presence at tedxjohnscreek.org to support community engagement and information dissemination.
    • Recruited and onboarded speakers and volunteers, sustaining a high-quality speaker lineup and dedicated volunteer team.
    • Won the Youth Innovator Award for cross-functional contribution to TED’s mission of spreading ideas locally.

  4. Student Researcher

    National Student Research Institution (NSRI)

    · 7 mos
    Jan 2026 — Present
    • Lead researcher on “Sequence-Based Machine Learning for Protein–Protein Interaction Analysis Using BioGRID” — a robust, reproducible, publishable ML pipeline predicting PPIs from sequence data alone.
    • Curate and filter human–human and human–virus PPI datasets, accounting for evidence-quality bias and annotation uncertainty.
    • Feature representation via ESM-2 protein language model embeddings; lightweight models (MLPs, Random Forests) with protein-level splits to validate generalization.

  5. Volunteer (VolunTEEN)

    Forsyth County Public Library

    · 1 yr 3 mos
    May 2025 — Present
    • Assisted library staff with organizing books, materials, and programs.
    • Helped run community events and supported patrons with resources.
    • Developed teamwork, communication, and organizational skills.

  6. Member & Competitor

    Technology Student Association (TSA)

    · 2 yrs
    Aug 2024 — Present
    • Applied leadership and technology skills to solve problems in competitive, participatory settings.
    • Represented the chapter in competitions and activities.

  7. Member & National Competitor

    Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

    · 3 yrs
    Aug 2023 — Present
    • Active member of FBLA at Forsyth Central High School; attended FLC, RLC, SLC, and NLC conferences.
    • BAA Four Level.
    • Earned Top 10 in Exploring Website Design at the Georgia FBLA State Leadership Conference.
Projects

From school competitions to open-source tools.

A mix of 5 hand-picked projects and the most starred public repositories on @harshitchaturvedy1 (refreshed on every build).

Activity

What a year of building looks like.

A snapshot of the last twelve months on my public GitHub — commits shipped, projects published, and stars collected.

  • 448Commitsin the last year
  • 6Public reposcurrently published
  • 5Stars earnedacross all repos
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Speaking

Sharing ideas worth amplifying.

One talk, one TEDx stage, one big question: how much of our digital life is really ours?

Still frame from the TEDx talk "The Social Media Illusion" at TEDx CummingTEDx CummingThe Social Media Illusion12 min
The talk

The Social Media Illusion

A talk exploring the powerful influence social media has on teens — from building connections to shaping self-worth through constant comparison. Personal experiences meet the algorithms that quietly steer our emotions and behavior, with a call to take control of our digital lives.

  • TEDx Cumming
  • ~12 minutes
  • 1.2k views
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Connect

Let's build something together.

Interested in collaborating, planning a STEM event, or just saying hi? I'd love to hear from you.

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