Vanya Shivashankar

About 17 (as of 2020), Olathe, KS

Mother: Sandy Shivashankar, Software QA Manager

Father: Mirle Shivashankar, Consulting IT Manager & Quality Assurance Control

Goals: Cardiac Surgeon

Interests: Acting, singing, piano, bike riding, swimming, brain games, playing with her dog, spelling and she loves saying balls to the walls

Vanya is a loveable little chatterbox with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. She has been an aggressive reader and speller since the age of five.

Her personal collective of novels expands more than 200 novels, reading each at least four times. Her sister is the 2009 Scripps champion and her idol who she looks up to.

Why she’ll win?

Having participated in hundreds of competitions over the years, Vanya has a firm grasp on what it takes to win! She is on a personal mission to win…so bring it!