Cypress Ridge High School junior Chirag Maheshwari, second from left, poses with fellow Atlas Fellowship Summer Program participants. He was among 100 talented students across the world chosen for the program, which includes a fully-funded 11-day program in the San Francisco area and both a $50,000 scholarship and access to additional funding and support for startups, experiments or programs.

Oct. 28, 2022—Cypress Ridge High School junior Chirag Maheshwari attended The Atlas Fellowship Summer Program, joining other talented students across the world for an 11-day program in the San Francisco area and earning both a $50,000 scholarship and access to additional funding and support for startups, experiments or programs.

The fellowship is designed to help highly talented high school students and recent graduates taking a gap year before beginning college understand how the world works and how they can shape it. Approximately 100 fellows from across the globe are selected from up to 500 finalists, who earn a $1,000 school and access to the Atlas Library and online community. Following a rigorous application process, which included an in-depth written application and invite-only interview for promising candidates, fellows are selected.

All Atlas Fellows earn an invitation to an 11-day, fully-funded summer program near the University of California Berkeley campus to help collaborate and develop big-picture thinking about science, philosophy and the future.

Cypress Ridge High School junior Chirag Maheshwari was selected for the Atlas Fellowship Summer Program, where talented students across the world come together in the San Francisco area to collaborate and develop big-picture thinking about science, philosophy and the future.

For Maheshwari, he continues his relationship with the prestigious university. He completed all high school math courses by the eighth grade, advancing to university-level math computer science courses the same year. In ninth grade, Maheshwari served as an academic intern (the only high school student among university students on the course staff) for Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory and led discussion sessions.

Chirag attended the summer program in June. He said he thoroughly enjoyed his time with the fellowship and the opportunity to meet a cohort of exceptionally intellectual and thoughtful individuals. The experiences will help Chirag continue his interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning and algorithms.