Angela Busheska

Angela Busheska (Ангела Бушеска) is a Macedonian climate activist from Skopje, North Macedonia. She is the creator of the app EnRoute, and 2021 winner of the Diana Award and a 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 listee in 2022. As of 2022, she was an engineering student at Lafayette College.

Early life

Busheska grew up in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.[1] She moved there when she was 17 to train for the Mathematical Olympiads. She lived with her aunt, who had cardiovascular disease, which grew worse with the dense air pollution and led to her death.[2][3] Busheska graduated valedictorian from Yahya Kemal College.[4]

She was the second-best national math winner and achieved awards in the Iranian Geometry Olympiad, Mediterranean Olympiad, Mathematics without Borders tournaments, and Macedonian Math Olympiad. In 2019 she was on the team from Macedonia that earned a place in the International Physics Olympiad that was held in Poland, but they were not able to participate due to financial difficulties.[5]

She designed a framework for an Environment-Smart City, for which she was awarded bronze medal at Genius Olympiad; the award included a scholarship to attend school in the United States.[6]

Climate advocacy

In April 2020, Busheska founded EnRoute. EnRoute is a free mobile app that helps users make simple daily choices to reduce their carbon footprint and has already guided thousands of users to reduce more than 100,000 kg of CO2 emissions.[7] In 2021, she was named a We Are Family Foundation Global Teen Leader.[8] In 2021 for her work with EnRoute,[9] she was named a National Geographic Society Young Explorer.[10] Additionally, she was a European Young Innovator by World Summit Awards. She represented North Macedonia at the United Nations Youth4Climate Event.[11] Following the Youth4Climate event in Milan, Busheska returned to Skopje to participate in local climate events.[12]

In 2022, Busheska was a delegate at the One Young World Summit that occurred prior to the COP26 meeting where she was one of the people who worked on the declaration regarding climate change.[13] She won the Emerging Leader Award at the annual Hoff Award Ceremony at Lafayette College. She was an expert consultant through the Youth To The Table partnership between SAP, and We Are Family Foundation.[14]

Selected publications
  • Busheska, Angela; Lopez, Christian (2022-08-14). "Exploring the Perceived Complexity of 3d Shapes: Towards a Spatial Visualization VR Application". Volume 2: 42nd Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE). St. Louis, Missouri, USA: American Society of Mechanical Engineers: V002T02A089. doi:10.1115/DETC2022-91212. ISBN 978-0-7918-8621-2.

Awards and honors

In 2020 Busheska received the award Youth Talent from Stevo Pendarovski, the president of North Macedonia,[15] who recognized her for wins in debating.[16] She received the 2021 Diana Award,[17][18] the first person from Macedonia to receive this award.[4] In 2022, Busheska was listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Social Impact Category.[19][20]

References
  1. Russo, Bernadette. "Abigail Schaus '24 and Angela Busheska '25 promote sustainability through the Easton Climate Action Plan". The Lafayette. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  2. says, Tom Burns (8 June 2022). "Angela Busheska '25 named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list". News. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  3. "Дваесет и петгодишната Ангела Бушеска номинирана за листата на Forbes "30 помлади од 30"". Иновативност (in Macedonian). 13 July 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  4. "Младата Aнгела Бушеска доби престижна награда во чест на англиската принцеза Диана". Иновативност (in Macedonian). 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  5. Атанасоска-Манасиева, Милена (April 5, 2019). "3.500 евра ги делат средношколците-физичари од Олимпијада во Полска". fakulteti.mk. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  6. Биљана, Николоска (6 July 2017). "Македонските генијалци докажаа во Америка дека кантарионот ги убива бактериите". Портал ТВМ (in Macedonian). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  7. "Ангела Бушеска: Огромна радост е да го видам моето име рамо до рамо со иноватори кои го менуваат светот". Радио МОФ. 2021-07-06. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  8. "ANGELA BUSHESKA". We Are Family Foundation. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  9. "EnRoute | WSA". Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  10. "Angela Busheska". explorer-directory.nationalgeographic.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  11. "Младите се подготвени да се приклучат кон глобалната конференција за климатски промени". www.unicef.org (in Macedonian). Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  12. Михаилов, Тони (2021-10-20). "Младинска декларација за климатските промени ќе се изготви на „Младински климатски самит" во Скопје". Гоце. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  13. Николов, Гоше (2022-02-28). "Онлајн дебата за младите и климата: Малите чекори водат до големи и важни промени" (in Macedonian). Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  14. "Youth Climate Declaration adopted at the Youth Climate Summit". www.unicef.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  15. "Angela Busheska, Leigh Jacobsen, Louisa Rose". P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  16. Ѓорѓевска, Весна (23 December 2020). "Кои се осумте Успешни млади во земјава кои добија признание". Бизнис Инфо (in Macedonian). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  17. "Успех од светски размери: 20-годишна девојка од Македонија се најде на листата на Форбс во категоријата социјално влијание". Hashtag. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  18. Kyriazi, Atalanta (15 July 2022). "Redefining (YOU)th: Nurturing Potential to Accelerate Change". SAP News Center. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  19. "Angela Busheska". Forbes. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  20. "Македонката која доби награда во чест на принцезата Дајана: Искрено со 19 – годишната Ангела Бушеска". Hashtag. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.