What school lunch debt has to do with public health
Why relieving meal debt might do more for student health than it looks like on paper.
March 2026Read the essay
Hi, I'm Aarush.
I'm a sophomore at Green Hope High School in Cary, North Carolina, who's into medicine, public health, and building things with code.
I make websites and apps, and I do research with health and education data to see what it can tell us. I shadow in clinics to get a real look at what medicine is like up close.
I'm trying to learn as much as I can right now. Most of what I build starts with the county next door.
When I'm not doing that, I'm usually playing basketball, studying chess, or at the piano.
Aarush
10th grade, Green Hope High School
aarush.ghadia@gmail.comTear here to write to him.
The county next door
Wake County's 52 ZIP codes, shaded by the share of students who are economically disadvantaged, from his Full Plates data. Point at one.
Writing
Teaching anatomy without a touchscreen
Building a gesture-controlled skeleton that runs entirely in the browser.
February 2026Read the essay
Wake Rec Access
A tested GIS pipeline asking how resident-only HOA recreation changes estimates of access inequality in Cary, North Carolina.
ProtocolRead it
Two essays and one working paper so far. Click a spine to open it. All writing
Green Hope from above, photographed by Lchang2 (CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons).