The Midrand High School student is the only South African selected for India’s Mission ShakthiSAT, a global program training young women in satellite tech and space science. She crushed 550 challenging tasks; many beyond her grade level; juggling trigonometry and coding while still in Grade 9. Her secret? A family that made stargazing a ritual, and moms who showed her engineering has no gender. Ragini didn’t wait for permission; she reached out to SANSA, helped organize STEM outreach for 1,000 students, and even restored her own desk as a kid. Financial hurdles stand in her way for the trip to India, but she’s undeterred: “I’ll pay it forward.” Her message? Don’t say ‘no’ before you try. Even if you stumble, you’ll learn something. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll launch a satellite by 15.