Gitanjali Rao, a 15-year-old Indian American has become the first kid ever to be feature on TIME magazine as ‘Kid of the Year’.
TIME tweeted, “Introducing the first-ever Kid of the Year, Gitanjali Rao.”
Introducing the first-ever Kid of the Year, Gitanjali Rao https://t.co/Hvgu3GLoNs pic.twitter.com/4zORbRiGMU
— TIME (@TIME) December 3, 2020
The young inventor and STEM promoter has been selected from a field of more than 5,000 Americans, ages between 8 to 16.
Rao was also named in Time’s ‘7 Young Inventors Who See a Better Way’ list.
She won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge for a device called Tethys that uses carbon nanotube sensors to detect lead in drinking water in 2017.
A year later, she won a prize in the TCS Ignite Innovation Student Challenge for inventing Epione, a tool that diagnoses early-stage prescription opioid addiction. She has also been named in Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list.
Her latest is an anti-cyber-bullying app and chrome extension called Kindly. It spots and prevents cyberbullying messages.
