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Committee approves Shrina Dybala as student member of State Board of Education
Summary
The committee confirmed Shrina Dybala of Farmington as a nonvoting student member of the Connecticut State Board of Education after she outlined work on adaptive STEM programs for neurodivergent students and broader student-advocacy initiatives.
Shrina Dybala of Farmington was confirmed Feb. 6, 2025, as a nonvoting student member of the Connecticut State Board of Education following a public hearing in which she described her advocacy for neurodivergent students, her adaptive STEM initiatives and her role in student leadership at Farmington High School.
Dybala told the Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee she launched Spire Adaptive STEM, Farmington's first program to teach computational thinking and digital skills to neurodivergent students, and expanded that work into a national pilot called Code for All Minds.…
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