Mara Steiu

Beta Gamma Sigma

Beta Gamma Sigma is an academic honor society that's restricted to the top 10% of undergrads, top 20% of MBA students and select doctoral candidates at the world's top 5%, AACSB-accredited business schools.

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Most Influential Woman Award Finalist (Romania)

Central European Startup Awards

CESA aims is to inspire, stimulate and recognize entrepreneurship throughout the CEE region, whilst connecting a community of startup enthusiasts, serial entrepreneurs, investors and ecosystem supporters from diverse and complementing backgrounds. They do not focus solely on cool new startups, but on the entire startup ecosystem: from the investors and journalists to the founders and the developer heroes who keep on shaping our world every day with their tireless effort to create and innovate.

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Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Romania

JCI TOYP Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Romania

JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) Romania award honors ten incredible young leaders under the age of 40 each year. These young people represent Romania in the global JCI TOYP competition, which in 2021 will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Babson College Global Scholar

Babson College no on entrepreneurship

U.S.News & World Report has ranked Babson College among the top 30 undergraduate business programs in the country and No. 1 in entrepreneurship for an unprecedented 18th time. Each year, a small, highly talented group of international students is awarded need-based scholarships as part of the Global Scholars Program.

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Bocconi University Merit Award (Acceptance offer)

Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano

Academic profiles considered to be amongst the top applicants are considered for merit-based financial aid based on the admission's application submitted to Bocconi University.

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Honorific Consultant

Romanian Government Ministry of Research Innovation and Digitalization

The Honorary Council for Science, Innovation and Technology brings together some of the best Romanian researchers and experts in the fields of science and technology, located in the powerful innovation centers of the world. The Council is an independent, honorary and consultative body. It supports the Government of Romania in developing strategies, public policies and programs that can transform Romania into one of the most innovative and competitive countries. The main activity of the council is to formulate strategic recommendations for the development of research, innovation and technology in Romania, based on the analysis of global trends and good practices from other countries.

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CIFY Awards Finalist

Child and Youth Finance International

One of the 3 international finalists in the Youth Financial Inclusion Innovation Award. More at: www.childfinanceinternational.org/news-and-events/awards

Youngest participant (17 y.o.) in IT4Change Summit

Ashoka

I was the youngest "IT4Change Summit 2014" participant. The event was event organized through the "Engagement with Perspective Program (PEP)" and founded by Ashoka and SAP. 28 successful young social entrepreneurs from all over Europe (20 Germans and 8 internationals) were gathered for the summit, where the PEP team and their experts supported the participating projects with coaching, advice, access to valuable networks and funds.

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Speaker at Brain Bar Budapest

Brain Bar Budapest

Brain Bar Budapest is a new global festival focusing on tech and humanity. The event series features a diverse offering ofpresentations, debates and panel discussions, focusing on themes such as the complexity of the relationships between human labor and robotics, mass urbanization and the rural lifestyle or even singularity and religion. The festival’s main driving forces are dialogue and group brainstorming. Besides leading experts, decision makers and opinion leaders, the challengers of the status quo - entrepreneurs and students - also take part. Participants are offered a glimpse at the innovations generating change: cloud-based robotics, gene technology, artificial intelligence and automated transportation, as well as the survival

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Guest Speaker

Tech Open Air Berlin

Berlin’s Tech Open Air, the tech conference that isn’t a conference. A place where people sit under the trees in front of an old warehouse, drinking Coffee Circle coffee and chat about the great investments and failures in Germany’s throbbing startup heart. Drones fly above our heads, models walk around wearing solar-charging clothes, there is Red Bull everywhere and children sit around playing with robots. These are the many faces of TOA: from music to drones, from hardware to IT4Change. I was honored to be the youngest (17 years old) speaker in the event, discussing about Teentrepreneurship in education systems.

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Speaker at CYFI (Child & Youth Finance International) Summit

CYFI National Bank of Romania Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research Financial Supervisory Authority of Romania

Act for Impact - the 4th Child & Youth Finance International Summit and Strategy Launch - gathered government officials, senior practitioners, innovators and young people to address the gaps, challenges and opportunities for economic empowerment of young people across the globe. Discussions were accelerated, best practices shared and duplicated and concrete steps taken in the development of a global plan of action for youth economic citizenship. The 2016 summit, which was hosted by the National Bank of Romania, Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research and Financial Supervisory Authority of Romania, was centered around the launch of our strategy for the years 2016-2020, which is the result of a year-long multi-sector, multi-st

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2nd Place at Leaders for the future (Business Plan Presentation & Pitch)

Leaders for the future Romania

www.leadersforthefuture.ro

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Outstanding Achievement in Quantitative Methods for Business Analytics Course I and II (QTM)

Babson College Division of Mathematics and Science

Speaker at Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado

University of Colorado

Each April, a hundred fascinating luminaries from the widest range of backgrounds gather in Boulder for what The New York Times calls "a week-long extravaganza of discussion and debate" on more than 200 sessions over five days. Roger Ebert, who participated in the CWA for four decades, always referred to the CWA as "the Conference on Everything Conceivable." The CWA is made up of vast network of engaged, committed volunteers. Many of the presenters would normally command large speaking or performing fees, but all who appear at the CWA waive honoraria and pay their own way to come to Boulder. University faculty, staff and students work alongside local community members to plan and host the week's public events, as well as the participants' t

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Speaker at the Ustvarjalnik Conference

May

Ustvarjalnik is a Slovenian venture that runs a network of high school accelerators all around the world, where students meet once per week after classes to figure out what they love to do and to turn this into a real business. Over the course of the program, students start their first startups, thus learning how to change their ideas into reality. This way the clubs empower students to be able to create a future where they are not bound by their circumstances.

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Bain & Company True North Scholarship Finalist (Strategy Consulting)

Bain Company London

Bain & Company designed this scholarship for exceptional female students to support and encourage them to enter strategy consulting, a field where women are traditionally underrepresented.

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25 Under 25

BostInno

Top 25 Rising Entrepreneurs and Technologists Under the Age of 25 from Boston - https://www.americaninno.com/boston/inno-insights-boston/bostinnos-25-under-25/

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Start-Up Challenge

WallStreetro

Our business plan won the 1st prize in the Start-up Challenge, a business plans competition organized by Wall-Street.ro. http://www.wall-street.ro/articol/IT-C-Tehnologie/189193/cine-sunt-castigatorii-start-up-challenge.html?fb_ref=Default

Eastern Europe Representative at the MiSK Global Forum, Saudi Arabia

MISK Foundation

The first-ever MiSK Global Forum, is a two day event focused on a variety of multidimensional formats, culture and technology for young Saudis and Arab youth in partnership with the brightest minds in the world.This unique gathering aims to unleash the potential of the country’s youth and advance the Saudi National Transformation Program and the Vision 2030.

Richmond Oldham Scholar (Acceptance offer)

University of Richmond

The Richmond Scholars program is divided into four designations: Artist Scholars, Boatwright Scholars, Oldham Scholars, and Science Scholars, which are used to determine additional educational advantages. Those advantages include stipends for an expanded educational experience, guaranteed housing, priority registration, and invitations to special designation-specific events. Oldham Scholars Up to seven Richmond Scholars will be designated as Oldham Scholars, and their award will equal the value of full tuition plus room and board. Over four years, the value of the scholarship for a student designated as an Oldham Scholar will exceed $200,000. Since 1983, the generosity of the late alumnus Mr. W. Dortch Oldham and his wife, Sis, has enable

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