{"id":116714,"date":"2020-12-05T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/colorado-student-scientist-named-times-kid-of-the-year"},"modified":"2020-12-05T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:23:09","slug":"colorado-student-scientist-named-times-kid-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/colorado-student-scientist-named-times-kid-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Colorado student, scientist named Time\u2019s \u2018Kid of the Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/colorado-student-scientist-named-times-kid-of-the-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist who has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems has been named Time Magazine\u2019s first-ever \u201cKid of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gitanjali Rao, a sophomore at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver who lives in the city of Lone Tree, was selected from more than 5,000 nominees in a process that culminated with a finalists\u2019 committee of children, drinking <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+crisis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water crisis<\/a> in Flint, Michigan, inspired her work to develop a way to detect contaminants and send those results to a mobile phone, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like 10 when I told my parents that I wanted to research carbon nanotube sensor technology at the Denver Water quality research lab, and my mom was like, \u201d A what?\u201d Rao told Jolie. She said that work \u201d is going to be in our generation\u2019s hands pretty soon. So if no one else is gonna do it, I\u2019m gonna do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist who has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems has been named Time Magazine\u2019s first-ever \u201cKid of the Year.\u201d Gitanjali Rao, a sophomore at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver who lives in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1512,4,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}