My Need For Scholarship Essay

Ankita Arora (Programme Lead, The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women) :

Please help me to welcome Vedica alumna from the founding batch of The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women Ms Kavya Sinha.

(Hand Claps)

Kavya: Hello my dear scholars. How does it feel to be a Vedica Scholar?

(Background cheers: ‘Great’, ‘Awesome’, ‘Privileged’)

Kavya: Well, you should be. More than being at the right place you all are in the right hands.
15 years back when I came straight to the campus of SACAC from Delhi Airport a sense of extraordinary excitement and some bit of anxiousness surrounded me. Today again when I entered the campus the joy of being at the same surroundings is extraordinary. Time has been flying for me.

Prior joining Vedica I was working as a Senior Software Engineer at a product based MNC Novell. I already had the taste of the corporate industry and I had loved my corporate experience of twenty two months. That’s why I wanted to join the corporate workforce yet again but with a different role.

I had always fancied this role when I was working at Novell. With a technical background and some work experience in a software company I believed it wouldn’t be difficult to lead a team of software developers and testers. But as they say “The grass is always greener on the other side”, it wasn’t easy and simple as I thought it would be. When you have to lead a team of young men professionals and you are the only women in the team the job is bound to be difficult, and being new to the team adds to your already existing challenges of being a women manager. But Vedica had already equipped me with all the self confident I needed. With confidence came independence, a sense of self belief that yes I can do it. With my relationship building skills, empathy and compassion I went an extra mile in reaching out to my team members and built a rapport in a much shorter span of time than I