Sankalp Kishan Bhan is a senior at James E. Taylor High School, Katy, TX, and is son of Sushma and Opinder Bhan. 
Sankalp actively participates in Science and Mathematics regional tournaments, is a co-founder of his school's diversity club (Taylor for Tolerance), and is the Principle Bassist at the Greater Houston Youth Orchestra. Sankalp is also working part-time at Newpark Drilling Fluids where he is gaining hands-on experience of analytical instrumentation and petroleum chemistry. His other key activities are tutoring high school students, youth volunteering for local hospitals, Literacy Advance, and Indo-American Charity Foundation.

Sankalp plans to join Washington University (St. Louis) for Chemical or Biomedical engineering. He has a GPA of 4.4 and SAT of 2160.