Amritha Mandagondi

The student who almost dropped out, and the path that led him to NASA

I came to Teach For India from a software job, and was placed in an under-resourced public school with 400 students, most of them furthest from opportunity.

One day a student came to me intending to drop out. [Your words: what he said, what you saw in him, and what you did next.]

He stayed. He went on to a path to represent India at NASA, a story The Hindu covered in 2018. Across the school, sustained work with families and the community helped reduce dropout by 45%.

What it taught me

[One line, in your words, about what this taught you.]

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