Anika Mehrotra

Anika Mehrotra, 17, started learning Bharatanatyam at the age of 6 from Smt. Mythili Kumar and the Abhinaya Dance Company. She has performed in numerous annual student dance recitals and other community shows. She is also a part of the Junior Dance Company (JDC) under the direction of Malavika Kumar Walia and has performed with the JDC at the San Francisco International Arts Festival and more.

Anika will graduate in June 2024 from Los Altos High School where she has pursued her love for math and computer science. In addition to loving to learn, Anika enjoys teaching as well. She is a teaching assistant at a local competitive math school, Random Math, where she hopes to inspire younger students’ passion for math, critical thinking, and logical reasoning. Anika is also excited about research having completed two independent research projects on AI & teaching and heliophysics at NASA. Outside of academics, Anika is also a second degree black belt in Taekwondo and enjoys playing golf.

Anika hopes to study mathematics and computer science in college to become a professor in the future.