Bimba Shrestha received many science and technology awards in high school, including the Forward Thinker Award at the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair. In 2015, he and partner Doga Ozesmi were Grand Honorary Champions of the Iowa State Science Fair. They also won first place in Computer Science, the INTEL Excellence in Computer Science Award and the Mu Alpha Theta Innovation Award. Their project was "Tracking and Killing Insects Using Photonic Fences."
Bimba studies computer science at the University of North Carolina, where he earned a full scholarship.