ALPHA

Driving STEM outreach, Innovation, and Equity in Education

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THE MISSION

We bypass legacy infrastructure to foster innovation and excellence in STEM for all that are involved with us. Operating out of the Richmond area, Alpha transforms students to solvers.

Through an amazing team operating out of specialized programs such as the Todd Allen Phillips Center for Medical Sciences, we push students forward and move them from equations to excellence.

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ACTIVE EVENTS

APRIL 2026

Alpha STEM Bowl

In teams of 4, students will compete in areas from physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, and computer science. This is open to middle and high schoolers.

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MAY 2026

Clinical Innovation Challenge (CIC)

Students compete in teams of no more than three in order to find a problem in the clinical system and create innovative strategies to adress it. This can include machine learning models for disease prediction or even changes to the triage system.

REGISTRATION NOT YET OPEN

THE TEAM

Currently recruiting. Email arjunmadaan29@gmail.com with inquiries regarding open positions. The application form is linked here.

ARJUN MADAAN

CEO & Founder. Technical Lead.

Arjun is a technical founder operating out of the Todd Allen Phillips Center for Medical Sciences, focusing on applied innovation. An active quantitative researcher, he has been awarded on Kaggle for specific evaluation tasks relating to his work on AI safety via the M.C.A.I.T. benchmark. A biology olympiad competitor, Arjun has won medals in national-level biology olympiads for high performance. He also has given talks on the optimization of generative AI hyperparameters for complex physics problems. At Alpha, he wishes to create a net good and solve real-world structural problems.

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