Gitanjali Rao of Indian origin became 'Kid of the Year'

Washington: Gitanjali Rao, who lives in the US of Indian origin, has won the Time magazine's Kid of the Year award. 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 cyber bullying using technology.

She has been selected as the 'Kid of the Year' for the year 2020. For the first time, a child has been awarded 'Kid of the Year' award by a child. Gitanjali has won this award, leaving behind five thousand children. As Time magazine said, this world belongs to those who shape it. She was interviewed by actress and social activist Angelina Jolie for Time Special.

Gitanjali said about her processes during digital conversations with Jolie from her home in Colorado, thinking of doing research on carbon nanotube sensor technology when she was 10 years old. Gitanjali said that this was the beginning of change, when someone is not doing this work then she wants to do it.

Geetanjali said, do not try to solve every problem, instead focus on the one that provokes you. If I can do it, anyone can do it. Gitanjali said that her generation is facing many problems which had never come before.

He said, we are also facing the old problems which still exist.

Like we are facing a new global epidemic 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.

Gitanjali said that from the time she was in the second or third grade, she started thinking about how she could use science and technology to bring about social change. Please tell that Gitanjali has prepared an app to deal with cyber bullying. About this, Gitanjali said that it is an app and chrome extension. It can catch cyber bullying right in the beginning. Its name is Kindly.