Time Kid of the Year Gitanjali Rao aims to ‘solve world’s problems’ – By BBC Staff (BBC) / Dec 4 2020
A teenage scientist and inventor named Time magazine’s first-ever Kid of the Year has said she hopes to inspire others to come up with ideas to “solve the world’s problems”.
Gitanjali Rao, 15, has invented technologies including a device that can identify lead in drinking water, and an app that detects cyberbullying.
She was chosen from more than 5,000 US nominees for the landmark title.
“If I can do it, you can do it, and anyone can do it,” she said.
In an interview for Time magazine with actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie, Ms Rao said she does not look like “your typical scientist”.
“Everything I see on TV is that it’s an older, usually white man as a scientist,” she said.
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