Anneysha Sarkar

One year ago, I was a bright-eyed first-year university student who was happy just to get involved in the things around me. In 2022, I attended the Women* In STEM Leadership Conference. The main aim of this conference is to inspire, empower and educate female, femme-aligned and non-binary undergraduate students at the ANU about leadership in STEM. In 2023, I returned to the conference as Education Coordinator and organised an Orienteering Challenge and an Opportunities workshop. The Orienteering Challenge was meant to acquaint new students with the Science Precinct on campus, and later-year students to find places and things that they had not seen before. This activity also created opportunities for early-year and later-year students to collaborate and solve a set of puzzles. It was intended to be light-hearted and fun, and it was great to see all teams running around enthusiastically trying to find clues and taking photos together.  I had a lot of fun as well while designing the puzzl

I love trying out stuff! Recently, ads from a meal prep service called EveryPlate kept showing on my feed. I decided to try it out since the first box was on sale anyway (it was about $5/meal).  Upon opening the box, I immediately realised that I wouldn't be able to follow their recipes because they required you to use the oven. I've never baked or used the oven before, so I do not have a baking tray or the confidence to use the oven without an experienced friend's supervision, just so I do not set the fire alarms off.  In the end, I decided to wing it. Here is what I started with: chicken tenderloin (about 250 g) panko breadcrumbs egg - 1 soysauce spices (salt, paprika, chilli powder, oregano) Indian spice mixes: chings masala, maggi magic masala, garam masala, and my favourite biryani masala 😭) cream tomato paste ginger garlic paste cucumber onion capsicum veggie salad vegetable stock butter chicken premade sauce (from the supermarket) I intended to make crispy chicken u