Diwak Singh Tomar, A Thiel Fellow
In May this year, 19 year old Diwank Singh Tomer joined 19 other young and exceptional youngsters from around the world to become a Thiel Fellow. The Thiel foundation’s fellowship comes with a $100,000 cheque and access to some of the greatest mentors of our times not least of whom is the legendary Peter Thiel - PayPal co-founder and Facebook's first investor. Tomer is now working on a platform to create interactive lessons in basic sciences in the mecca of technology– the Silicon Valley. It isn’t often that a youngster–schooled in the hills of Mussoorie and a college dropout– makes it that far at 19. Tomer’s journey is both fascinating and inspiring. It all started when he was eight when his mother took him to a summer coding camp. “I also turned out to be pretty good at it and had a small article about me in the local newspapers when I was 8,” says Tomer, who was hailed as an “exceptional hacker,” by the Thiel foundation. Born in small town...