About Plenare
For Students. By Students.
As a group of three high school graduates and one high school senior, Team Plenare has had a firsthand experience with the stressors of a competitive high school environment. Interviews with students shed light on many concerns; students’ high levels of stress were impacting their healthy eating habits, sleep schedule, and mental health. Further research showed that this wasn’t just an issue in our local area . According to a report by the APA, in 2016, 62% of high school students said they felt "overwhelming anxiety" due to their uncertain future after high school as well as their current workload - this was up from a reported 50% in 2011. Stress among adolescents has become a growing epidemic, and is one of the biggest mental health concerns in today's society.
Today, students are expected to juggle college level academics, sports, leadership positions, and many other extracurricular's while also staying healthy. However this often proves to be difficult. Plenare’s goal is to create an effective tool to help students perform at the best of their abilities while avoiding the adverse effects of high levels of stress. The solution is a simple, streamlined web application to tackle the core of problems related to stress - procrastination. When students can better manage their time, they feel more confident, prepared, and in control of their own life.
We take inspiration from high school students. Our web application aims to integrate seamlessly with school district platforms, combining features that high school students enjoy using on other platforms while also adding some of our own, that we will believe will enhance their high school experience.
As team Plenare, we realize the enormous potential that technology has to help students battle the exorbitant levels of stress they experience. Each high school student should have the resources they need to support their ambitious endeavors. That’s why we chose to create a tool that students can utilize to accomplish everything they set their mind to, while maintaining a balanced and healthy lifestyle with minimal levels of stress. We aim to help students elevate their lifestyle.
Our Team
Talented and Driven
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Design & Marketing
Akshay Murthy
Chief Marketing Officer
Akshay Murthy is a rising high school senior and the current founder and CEO of AKM Studios, a Graphic Design and Marketing Agency. Over the past three years, he has grown AKM Studios (@akmstudios) to over 9k followers on Instagram, and has worked with clients in the NBA, NFL, and FIBA, along with many local organizations and startups. Akshay is motivated to apply his design and marketing skills for Plenare to help improve the lifestyle of students everywhere.
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Megha Mattikalli
Chief Technical Officer
As an incoming computer science student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Megha recognizes the potential of utilizing technology to reduce student stress and is passionate about pursuing Plenare to solve this issue. In her free time she loves to play the piano, travel, and enjoy the Pacific Northwest.
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Coding & Development
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Operations & Logistics
Rishi Kavikondala
Chief Operations Officer
Rishi Kavikondala is an Informatics student specializing in data science at the University of Washington. He has a diverse set of skills, including programming, product development, public speaking, and technical writing. His career goal is to form a company of his own after gaining experience in the workforce. He hopes that Plenare will help alleviate the stress levels of students in our community.
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Ranveer Thind
Chief Product Officer
Ranveer is a software engineer, who is currently a freshman at the Georgia Institute of Technology working on his B.S in Computer Science. As a student, Ranveer interned in the summer of 2018 at Cartogram, an indoor wayfinding company, and enhanced the current features of the chatbot using MySQL, JS, and HTML. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing soccer and participating in community coding events.
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Innovation & Development
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For Students
Plenare is designed to improve the lifestyle of students everywhere through automated scheduling and personalized schedule generation
Our application is designed to create a better platform allowing students to proactively manage their time for success. One of our main features is automated budgeting and scheduling of time, where students input into their calendar all of their assignments and tests, with due dates and approximate length of time to be completed. Plenare’s algorithm creates a schedule automatically, with time set aside for each assignment, activity, and test that was inputted. Students also have the ability to use this schedule interactively, able to drag and drop to fit their needs best. We here at Plenare work specifically to allow students to have a scheduling platform that suits their individual needs. Our intention for our web application is simple - create an application for students, by students.