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PatrickforO

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Thu Dec 3, 2020, 04:49 PM Dec 2020

'Time' Names Its Kid Of The Year: Water-Testing Scientist Gitanjali Rao

Source: NPR

Gitanjali Rao, a Colorado teenager who invented a mobile device to test for lead in drinking water, is Time's Kid of the Year for 2020. The magazine announced the award Thursday, citing Rao's ability to apply scientific ideas to real-world problems — and her desire to motivate other kids to take up their own causes.

It's just the latest recognition for Rao, 15, who was named last year to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. She won praise in 2017 after she responded to the Flint, Mich., water crisis by creating a device named Tehys, using carbon nanotube sensors to detect lead in water. The Lone Tree, Colo., native was named America's Top Young Scientist when she was in the seventh grade. She went on to collaborate with scientists in the water industry to try to get the device on the market.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/942034617/time-names-its-kid-of-the-year-water-testing-scientist-gitanjali-rao#:~:text=Gitanjali%20Rao%2C%20a%20Colorado%20teenager,take%20up%20their%20own%20causes.



What a great kid!
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'Time' Names Its Kid Of The Year: Water-Testing Scientist Gitanjali Rao (Original Post) PatrickforO Dec 2020 OP
Here she is. From Lone Tree, Colorado! blaze Dec 2020 #1
I wouldn't call her a 'kid'... not with a brain like that! Talitha Dec 2020 #2
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