Youthomatic

Sophia Yan and Shaun Karakkattu co-hosted a special episode as a part of the Vanderbilt Buchanan Fellowship on the phenomenon of widespread misinformation among the immigrant communities on social media platforms and ways to combat non-English misinformation.

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discusses with Maryam Khan and Sarah Syed about the research and outreach they have both conducted. Maryam has worked with bioinformatics to study Endometriosis and Sarah Syed is developing a method to prevent algae blooms. Maryam dives into the creation of her non-profit, and Sarah talks about the outreach she has done with students in her community.    --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discusses with Riya Goel and Aria Young, teen advisors at the United Nations Foundation: Girl Up and founders of Asianslead about the current climate in the United States during the coronavirus and BLM protests. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu asked Siddharth Satish and Arushi Bagchi, founders of Rememoirs about the structure and mission of their organization. Rememoirs is an nonprofit organization dedicated to helping seniors at local facilities with Alzheimer's and Dementia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discusses senior projects with Rashi Magiyawala who conducted research about taking the fair out of lovely: colorism in South Asian beauty, and Maxfield Hohn who conducted research about reviving anthropology in the modern museum. Maxfield talked about the development of the TA program at BASIS Mesa, and Rashi discussed the start of her fashion club. Rashi will be attending ASU in the fall, and Maxfield will be attending USC. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Youthomatic Season 2 premiers in June of 2020.

In this bonus episode for the New York Times podcast contest, Shaun Karakkattu introduced Brecker Ferguson's project about evaluating cross-cultural valuations of lions, Sara Kandel's project about putting a period on South Asian menstrual stigma, Rashi Magiyawala's project about taking the fair out of lovely: colorism in South Asian beauty, and Maxfield Hohn's project about reviving anthropology in the modern museum. Thank you to all the guests who helped with the first season of Youthomatic, and a new season will be out in the summer of 2020.

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discusses with Erin Clancy and Paige Lottman about their experiences at a large traditional high school and finding their place among the crowds. Erin talked about her experiences working with researchers and researching at ASU, TGen, and KEYS at the University of Arizona. Paige talked about her work in her engineering department at Red Mountain and the amazing senior project and work she has done with NASA.  If you are interested in looking into some of the programs they mentioned, some of the links are below. https://keys.arizona.edu/ https://www.tgen.org/education/tgen-bioscience-leadership-academy/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Shaun Karakkattu discusses with Caeley Looney, Editor and Chief of Reinvented Magazine and Zhao Gu Gammage, staff writer at Reinvented Magazine about their experiences as women in STEM. The discussion travels from a high robotics club all the way to interning at NASA. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discussed with Anissa Ferris, a senior at BASIS Mesa, and Swapnika Raola, a senior at BASIS Ahwatukee about their experiences with the KEYS program at the University of Arizona, the Coca-Cola Scholars program, and a senior project focused on women in STEM at Arizona State University.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Shaun Karakkattu discusses with Brecker Ferguson and Sara Kandel about their Senior Projects. Sara and Brecker talked about their passion and what pushed them to go internationally to research. Brecker learned and research with lions and other animals in Northern South Africa, and Sara worked with and researched about the stigma around women's menstruation in South Asian culture namely in Nepal. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Shaun and Shilo Karakkattu explain the creation of Youthomatics Studios. If you would like to be interviewed for an episode of Youthomatics Radio please contact us at youthomatic@gmail.com or on our Instagram at Youthomatic.