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Once in our lifetime, we all tend to have a dream of doing something exemplary. But, very few of us dare to follow our passion and turn that dream into reality. A lot of people today begin to feel they are already too young or too old to start something and achieve. However, age is just an issue of mind over matter. If you are willing to take that extra mile, you can surely accomplish your goal, no matter how young or old are you.
Well, this all seems to be just an intellectual thought, but we have a little bundle of talent with us who has rightly proven that if your dreams are big and you put your heart to achieve them, nothing else matters.
Manishka Dubey, is a roboticist, coder, abacus solver, Guinness world recorder, and tech enthusiast. Well, the list of her achievements and passions seems to be a bit long for a kid, who is just 8 years old. A vibrant, innovative, and versatile Manishka, hails from the beautiful city of Dehradun and is currently pursuing her academics at Mondrian House School.
Being raised by a single parent, her mother, Shefali Adhikari and the maternal family, this little bundle of abundance talent has left no stone unturned in making everybody proud with her innumerable achievements till now. Although being just 8 years old, Manishka has bought so many laurels, she still feels there is a long way to go and many more goals need to be accomplished. As her ambition is to become the youngest astronaut scientist and youngest girl drone pilot from India.
It’s quite evident that she is a creative learner who likes to think out of the box. But this is just like a drop of an ocean. Let us get to know more about this tech lover and intellectual kid.

THE BEGINNING OF HER TECH JOURNEY
As it is said “Coming events cast their shadows much before”. From her very initial days of growing up, her intellectual persona of hers was quite evident to her mother. Sharing about her childhood days, her mother says “From her childhood, she was a very quick learner, she started everything soon school, robotic, coding abacus and lot more. She is just 8 years and in class 5th. So, there are a lot of memories but the very interesting was her talks about space, astronauts, robots which were so fascinating to me while she used to explain me. She uses to count everything at home curtains, tables, windows, etc. one thing to add, she was just 18 months when she joined the school.

still remember that day when I went to pick her up from school, she was in class 1 she came out hugged me and said Mumma I want to learn coding and robotics as I want to be an astronaut, I was like what!? I asked her how do you know all this she said I learned about astronauts, space, sun, moon, earth, planets and how they work what they do by watching a short documentary in the tv room, and from that moment she said MUMMA I WANT TO BE an Astronaut and its final. Till the time we reached home, she was telling me about robots and everything. I was so surprised to see her interest and the knowledge she was sharing. I came home and started searching for robotics and coding classes for her but everyone said that she is too small for it and she will not understand, so we can’t take her. After a few days I got to know about SP robotics, Dehradun where I met Miss Shivakshi who agreed to take her trial first and then after 2 days, she said she is already a part of this institution and at that moment we were so happy and she still loves being there and explores a lot. SP robotics team and her Mentor Shivakshi in Dehradun are the ones who accepted her and had full belief in her. So, from Age-5.5 years till now, it is the best place for her on the earth. In fact, from school, we directly go to SP ROBOTICS MAKERS LAB DEHRADUN as it’s far from home and we both used to have our lunch in the car itself as we couldn’t go home because of the distance”.
“And today, as a proud mother I want her to be a good human, then first achieve her goals, become a better version of herself as well as inspire other children of her generation to focus on their goals and achieve them.”