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Ananya Yammanuru bags University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign award
Her efforts enabled access to computer science to K-12 students in the Champaign County area.
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Staff Reporter - Sun, 29, Jun 2025
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Ananya Yammanuru is the founder of the Sunday Coding Studio, a community outreach initiative / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign website
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign awarded the 2025 Campus Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement to Ananya Yammanuru.
The awards recognize faculty, staff members, students and community members who engage the public to address critical civic and community issues at the local, state, national and global levels.
Ananya Yammanuru received the Graduate or Professional Student Award for Excellence in Public Engagement.
Apart from Yammanuru, faculty and staff members Antoinette Burton and Lee Ragsdale, undergraduate student Ariana Mizan, the Entomology Graduate Student Association team and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Communications and Outreach team.
Yammanuru is pursuing her Ph.D. in computer science and holds bachelor’s degrees from Illinois in computer science and brain and cognitive science.
Additionally, she leads the computer science department’s Girls Who Code and Sunday Coding Studio outreach programs. Her efforts enabled access to computer science to K-12 students in the Champaign County area.
Since joining Girls Who Code in 2018 as a first-year student, Yammanuru has progressed from facilitator to a leadership role within the organization. She also established Sunday Coding Studio after noticing a lack of free and accessible coding programs like Girls Who Code in her community. Launched as a pilot in spring 2024, the studio became a full program in fall 2024, offering advanced coding activities to students of all genders.
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