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SkyScouts Club leadership

Meet our club leaders

SkyScouts Club is led by students, with guidance from an adult advisor.

Ishika Sharma
Founder & President · SkyScouts Club

Ishika Sharma

ishika2015in@gmail.com

Ishika founded Sky Scouts to help young people explore weather and climate through backyard science, storytelling and creative observations.

Her work includes student-led weather learning, peer outreach, and sharing project experiences at scientific conferences. Her CV records a SkyScouts Club presidency and presentations at American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union meetings.

Recognition

First Place, Best Student Poster Presentation at the 2025 AMS Applied Climatology conference, for the project on elementary students’ daily weather experiences and reflections.

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Co-Founder & Vice President · SkyScouts Club

Ansh Kumar

Ansh explores weather through backyard observations, handwritten journals, drawings and hands-on experiments. His reflections on snow and hail are part of Sky Scouts’ documented student weather-learning activities.

As Co-Founder and Vice President, Ansh helps bring student curiosity and creative learning to the Sky Scouts community.

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A team built around young voices

Students bring the ideas. Adult guidance helps turn them into supervised, meaningful activities. The groups below are a proposed team structure; appointments are still to be confirmed.

Ishika SharmaFounder & President
Ansh KumarCo-Founder & Vice President

Science and exploration

Weather observations, experiments and learning resources.

Proposed

Community projects

Environmental action, project planning and participation.

Proposed

Stories and outreach

Student reflections, peer sharing and communications.

Proposed
Adult Advisor

Ashish Sharma

Supervision and specialist support will be arranged for each activity.

sharmaa@illinois.edu

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Families, educators and community partners can help bring SkyScouts Club to life.

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