By Nirbhuy A.
Content Creator, SFRM
Hi! My name is Nirbhuy, and I’m honored to be the San Francisco Regional Mensa content creator! I have a major interest in medical sciences and math and I am SO excited to share my knowledge with you. I live in Southeastern Washington, and if you have ever read my article with the Columbia Basin Regional Mensa (CBRM) titled “Why Mensa and My Goals,” you would have seen that I go CRAZY designing. I know. I sketched over 300 drawings of electric and hydrogen car interiors that still remain in my old bedroom even today. I was a boy who grew up learning life lessons of how to take accountability of my own life, my own dreams, and my own passions. An impression that you’ll earn something if you work sincerely sunk into my brain during the pandemic. In short, my life is a 10-year tape recording of obsessions, and that is also the reason as to why I fit perfectly well as a content creator.
Since I was a baby when the pandemic struck, I was very interested in truck design. Although only a quarter of my truck designs actually are 3D, they had quite insightful features, and I drew about 500 of them. When the pandemic struck, I was once again OBSESSED with car designs. In mid-2022, my interests changed from car designs to math. I was OBSESSED for the third time. I was measuring angles of tetherball courts and minute screws as well as looking at an airplane and making trigonometry calculations with limited information. In summer camps, I woke up all night making trigonometry calculations, which took ten pages in four days. I went back to designing, but I still had math as a partial obsession. And right around the corner was May of 2024. My obsession was shifting from math to medical sciences. It turned from homework to passion. On every weekend, I would spend all my aimless time on medical research. I would usually do six to eight hours of making google documents filled with medical jargon and tons of references. And here I am, still making changes per unit time on how a toy race car moves and doing copious medical research on weekends (LOL)!
While I do spend time on my obsessions, I love to support the environment and give back to my community. I partnered with one of my friends and started a kids’ wing under a non-profit 501(c3) that empowers children to plant trees and help the audience, who are generally students totally new to tree planting, become next-generation environmental stewards, who will take agency to start their own tree club that empowers their next generation of environmental stewards. We earned the President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) presented by the United States President in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as a total of $10,000 from the Gloria Barron’s Young Heroes Award. In terms of giving back to the community, I participate in the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA), which was included in one of the previous Mensa Bulletins. Last year, I participated in 26 hours of volunteering and got the first level of the PVSA award. In addition, I am a clean energy advocate for hydrogen. From 2022, I have been deeply interested in hydrogen as a clean energy source, and in specific the steam methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen production technique. I support this technology in major events and city hall events as well as submit these efforts to the National Energy Education Development program where we won 3 times in a row.
So, Mensans, the only words in my brain that I hear now, screaming as I write this, are “OBSESSED!” and “ENVIRONMENT!” Now that you know me well, why I am so excited to be a content creator for SFRM, and a bit of my history, my first article will focus on a curious mix of medicine and math, and will remain a suspense until I release it.
