The Famous ‘TIMES’ Magazine had a different approach this year. They chose a Kid of the Year.
So here is the First Ever 2020 TIMES Kid Of The Year!
Gitanjali Rao!
Bio
Gitanjali Rao (born 2005) is an American inventor, author, scientist and a STEM promoter. She won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2017. She was recognized as Forbes 30 U 30 for her innovations. She was named TIME Top young innovator in 2020 for her innovations and “innovation workshops” she conducts across the globe.On its December 4, 2020 cover, Time named Rao “Kid of the Year.”
Early life
Gitanjali is from Lone Tree, Colorado. She attends the STEM School Highlands Ranch. She wants to study genetics and epidemiology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has spoken up about the gender pay gap.
Career
Gitanjali heard about the Flint water crisis while watching the news. She became interested in ways to measure the lead content in water. She developed a device based on carbon nanotubes that could send information via bluetooth. Rao collaborated with a research scientist at 3M. In 2017 Rao won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge and was awarded $25,000 for her invention, Tethys. Tethys contains a 9-volt battery, a lead sensing unit, a bluetooth extension and a processor.It uses carbon nanotubes, whose resistance changes in the presence of lead. She learned about the carbon nanotubes while reading the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website. She plans to work with scientists and medical professionals to investigate the potential of Tethys as a viable method. She presented her idea at the 2018 MAKERS conference and raised a further $25,000. As of January 2019, she was working with the Denver water facility and hopes to have a prototype in the next two years.
She is a 3-time TEDx Speaker. In September 2018 Rao was awarded the United States Environmental Protection Agency President’s Environmental Youth Award.
Gitanjali was awarded the Top “Health” Pillar Prize for the TCS Ignite Innovation Student Challenge in May 2019 for developing a diagnostic tool based on advances in genetic engineering for early diagnosis of prescription opioid addiction.
She is also an accomplished pianist. According to her mother, when Gitanjali was three years old she asked what she could do to help someone who was sick; playing music was suggested.
She is a member of Scouts and has enrolled in the Scouting STEM program (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in the United States.
Rao is the first person to receive TIME magazine’s Kid of the Year designation.
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