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Inspira Foundation's Vision
Inspira Foundation's Vision
We are committed to inspiring and nurturing a generation of curious, capable, and compassionate student innovators who are ready to apply their STEM knowledge and creativity to tackle real-world challenges, and make meaningful contributions to their communities.
Our Story
Our Story
Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, becoming deeply intertwined with every aspect of our lives. Gen Z, which represents about 20% of the U.S. population as of 2025 (around 8.1 million in California). will be at the forefront of navigating these rapid changes. Yet, school curricula have struggled to keep up, leaving students either underprepared for the future or forced to self-learn through a maze of fragmented online and offline resources. Meanwhile, growing academic pressure drives a test-centered culture that stifles creativity and dampens students’ motivation to tackle complex, real-world challenges.
Lucas and Saria believe in making advanced STEM education accessible to all curious minds, strengthening scientific literacy across the community, and creating spaces for students to explore and innovate. They also believe in building and sharing solutions that benefit the society. Together, they form Inspira Foundation.
Our Founders
Our Founders
Lucas is a student at The Harker School passionate about both computer science and medical science. By combining his interest in app and game development with a drive to address health challenges, he explores creative solutions to real-world problems. His latest project, CogniPlay, a deep learning-powered multimodality mobile app for cognitive impairment detection, transforms cognitive assessments into engaging games. He is currently a student intern at UCSF TechLab, and has previously attended a clinical internship at Stanford, as well as conducted research and published under the mentorship of Dr. Kirstin Rollins, PhD.
In his free time, Lucas enjoys playing the violin, chess variants and Tetr.io.
Saria is a student at The Harker School with a passion for ballet and biomedical research, aspiring to become a dermatologist. Her research journey began with a project focused on improving seaweed-based biofabric as an alternative to single-use plastic by replacing the toxic firming agent calcium chloride with food-safe, eco-friendly calcium lactate. The project earned multiple awards at local and state science fairs and was named a Top 300 project at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. She is currently pursuing an independent research project at the intersection of material science and dermatology.
In her free time, Saria enjoys writing (both in English and French), and classical ballet which she began since the age of 5.
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