She holds a PhD in Engineering from Dartmouth, Master in Biotechnology from Germany and Bachelors in Engineering from India. Previously she had dedicated a decade of her life working on renewable energy. She then took it upon herself to reimagine education by launching StemChef for the benefit of the future generations. Today, I'm excited to introduce you to, Dr. Ashie Bhandiwad!
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- Ashie was inspired to save the world by her father, who worked for an environmental company in India. Whatever path she followed in her business life, it was always influenced by this.
- After spending several years making extensive use of her degree in chemical engineering, she really wanted to get back to the roots of that “saving the world” inspiration, and that led her to working with renewable energy and bioenergy (solar, wind, water, etc)
“Whatever you want, just do it. Stop procrastinating.” ~ Ashie Bhandiwad
- Ashie was working as a research scientist at UC Berkeley as the mother of a 3 year old and it was actually her daughter that inspired her to pivot dramatically from that path to her current business. It was through the explanation of complicated things to her daughter using kitchen experiments, that would often get eaten, that she decided to try and package them together to be able to help others.
- Although she made the dramatic change in her path followed, she doesn’t really have an answer for why she decided to make the change other than she recognized her daughter growing up “too fast”.
“If you don’t know what you want to do yet, start small. You don’t have to go all in all at once” ~ Ashie Bhandiwad
- Ashie had always been entrepreneurial, however she never really envisioned STEM Chef being one of her entrepreneurial ventures. It was a very gradual, albeit seamless, transition and natural growth of what started as a side project.
- Ashie’s daughter has been an integral part of not just the start of the business, but it’s ongoing success and development as well. Because she still has all of these questions, the answers still need to be created and in turn, those turn into more and more classes.
Meet Ashie
Dr. Ashie Bhandiwad is the founder of StemChef. She holds a PhD in Engineering from Dartmouth, Master in Biotechnology from Germany and Bachelors in Engineering from India. Previously she had dedicated a decade of her life working on renewable energy. Ashie then took it upon herself to reimagine education by launching StemChef for the benefit of the future generations.
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