New York: Indian-origin 15-year-old American teenager Gitanjali Rao has been nominated by Time magazine as the first ‘Kid of the Year’ for his brilliant work so far. He is a brilliant young scientist and inventor. Gitanjali has done a great job in dealing with issues ranging from contaminated drinking water to opium addiction and cyberbullying using technology. Time said, “This world belongs to those who shape it.” Gitanjali was selected from over 5,000 contenders for Time’s first ‘Kid of the Year’.
She was interviewed by actress and social activist Angelina Jolie for Time Special. “Observe, think, research, create and tell” about her processes during a digital media interaction with Jolie from her home in Colorado, Gitanjali said. According to Time, the teenager said, “Don’t try to solve every problem, but focus on the one that inspires you. If I can do it, anyone can do it. “Gitanjali said that her generation is facing many problems which had never come before. Kishori said, “But at the same time, we are also facing old problems that still exist.
Like we are facing a new global pandemic (Coroanavirus) here and we are still facing the issue of human rights. There are problems that we have not created but now we have to solve them through technology, such as climate change and cyber bullying. The teenager said that since she was in the second or third grade, she started thinking about how she could use science and technology to bring about social change. The teenager said that when she was 10 years old, she told her parents that she wanted to do research on the carbon nano tube sensor technology at the Denver Water Quality Research Lab.
