Media category Winners
VIHAAN MENDIRATTA
YOUNG YOU TUBER
Meet Glasgow, Scotland, UK based, Young Youtuber. This 13 year old represents High school of Glasgow. He is calm, witty, observant and polite and loves to make dinosaur videos.A seeker of knowledge and information he made his way to the social media platform - YouTube with great determination and zeal and has over 12000 subscribers!
THARANI MARIA SOMANATHAN
YOUNG ROLE MODEL
Meet 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐲 (𝐒𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧), 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐔𝐊 based Young Role Model. This 13 year old represents 𝐒𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥. She is a TEDX speaker, songwriter and musician and has a successful YouTube channel - TM Tones. She also excels in academics, swimming, chess and is a classically trained dancer in Ballet and Bharathanatyam.
- TEDx - Inspirational Speech on “Heritage of Happiness” at 12 years of age.
- Tharani’s channel TM Tones - showcasing singing and music passion on YouTube (with over 2000 subscribers and over 550k views worldwide) and presence on other social media platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer etc.
- TM Tones’s collaboration with TeenyWeenyVR (a national award winning project) to bring Virtual Reality to children with special needs across the UK.
- Performance at local Mayor’s coronation event and also Mayor’s annual gala to support and help raise over £3k for deserving charities.
- Creative writing ✍️ and poetry skills which were selected out of thousands and published in three UK books.
- Other skills which include being Surrey and Epsom Chess ♟️ prize winner/top girl, receiving Academic 📚 scholarship, being District swimmer 🏊♀️, ballet 🩰 and Bharathanatyam dancer since the age of three etc. Hopefully this video helps to understand the reason for award.
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Award Date – 6th June 2023
| Time – 5.30 to 7.30pm
Last Date of Nominations : 30th April 2023
Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP