Namya Joshi is a Grade IX student at Sat Paul Mittal School, India. She is the student Minecraft Mentor. Inspired by her own motto #EachOneTeachTen, she has spent the last three years designing and delivering free of cost coding workshops for more than 10,000 teachers, young people, especially girls, in India and all over the world, as well as empowering other young people to run their own coding clubs. She has raised awareness about the social issues using game-based learning with STEM to provide solutions for the problems humanity faces.
She is awarded the prestigious Pradhanmantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2021 and is also the winner of the Diana Award 2021. She has earned ACE1 and ACE 2 levels at Adobe and got the Trendsetter badge by completing all the certifications. She is the winner of the UNESCO Worldwide Youth Multimedia Competition, TeachSDGss Ambassador, Rex Karamaveer Bronze Medal Awardee, Global E-Innovation Award Winner, Youngest Global Juror, SDGsChildren Ambassador India. She has spoken at numerous platforms such as KEOS2019 Finland, EduDays Microsoft, UNESCO, CONVOKE, Asia Berlin Summit, Adobe Education Summit on the power of STEM and game-based learning.