Rachna Nath is the Chair of the UNA-USA ( United Nations Association) Educator Affinity Group, a Fulbright Scholar, TIME Innovative Educator, an entrepreneur, Innovator, NASA solar system Ambassador, National Geographic Educator, grant writer and a STEM enthusiast.
She has won, numerous awards/ accolades including the TIME Top 10 Innovative Teacher, Michael A Cussanovich-Bioscience Educator 2022, Governors Celebration of Innovation Award, 2020, Global Innovation Award from TURNITIN 2019, Red Apple award from Chandler Chambers, received the Presidential Innovation Award for Environment Educators in the United States, Teacher of the year by Junior Science and Humanities symposium funded by the armed forces and also two Excite Awards from Lemelson-MIT foundation to mention a few. She has also been invited to join the “Imaginary College” as an Honorary member (Center for Science and Imagination) at ASU along with world renowned elite Philosophers like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Vandana Singh and many more.
She has been featured as one of the fifty 2021 Women in MILLION STEM, “Chandler Lifestyle 2020 Women of Chandler” recognized at the “Women in Leadership Conference” by the Chandler Chamber of Commerce, Phoenix Arizona. Some other features are in Thrive Global, Authority Magazine as Inspirational Women in STEM. She has also received grants From Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Healthy Urban Environments, FLINN foundation, NSF, Department of Defense, Arizona Recycling Coalition, Society for Science and the Public, Chandler Education Foundation and the list goes on.
She works with young entrepreneurs to make their dreams come true by working with the community partners and helping patent their ideas. Rachna has a network of trusted IT professionals, lawyers, community helpers who help bring dreams to reality for 9th to 12th grade students who are invested in critical thinking, problem solving and giving back to the community by solving real world problems. Her work has given 9 of her students a USPTO patent and 7 projects with patent pending for students in various prototypes from Anti-VOC scent bags to Heat stress monitoring devices. Rachna also does a lot of volunteering work talking about honey bees at various festivals, has contributed her time in mask making during the COVID19 pandemic and also runs a dance school “Sangeeta Nritya Academy” in US which she has dedicated to her Guru Sangita Hazarika in Assam, India.
Double masters