Dr. Srimathy Kesan

Dr. Srimathy, Founder & CEO of a leading Science and Technology incubator- “Space Kidz India” (SKI), is helping children reach out to the stars, quite literally. Launched in 2011, Space Kidz India has designed and pioneered multiple programs that are aimed at creating the next generation of scientific thinkers in India.

Driven with a mission to disrupt the mundanity of the Indian education system, Dr. Srimathy has broken ground in a hitherto uncharted avenue called “Space Education” through her unique programs, aimed at grooming India’s future scientists. Her ultimate goal is to lay the foundation for a World-renowned Space University with a manufacturing port in India.

She is the only Indian to be decorated with the Ambassador status to the top 3 Space centers of the World, NASA, ESA, and GCTC – Moscow. Apart from taking children to these research centers for hands-on Space training – Rocket building and launching techniques, Satellite making, she has also invited Cosmonaut Salizan Sharipov (Director of Yuri Gagarin Space Centre, Moscow) and Astronaut Marsha Ivins (NASA) to India to meet with Indian students and share their Space travel experience and to
motivate students, Retd. Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma – Hero of the Soviet Union, Space traveler, and the only Indian Cosmonaut had also shared his expertise with these students.

“Creating Young Scientists and Young Leaders for the Country” is her main motto and for which she had designed a metric to handpick them.“Young Scientist India”, “Youth Icon”, and “I4 India – Innovate for India” are annual contests, a unique avenue to promote innovations in the field of Science and Technology for high school and University students, apart from handpicking the core team of Young Scientists are then mentored, funded to create path-breaking live projects.