Gitanjali Rao: Gitanjali Rao is a 15-year-old teenager who has been chosen as TIME’s first-ever Kid of the Year for her work using ‘technology to tackle issues ranging from contaminated drinking water to opioid addiction and cyberbullying’. The genius teenager is from Colorado, US, and was selected from 5,000 nominees, she was interviewed by Academy award-winning Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie for TIME. Rao’s latest discovery is an app called, Kindly, which detects cyberbullying at an early stage and has also developed another application called Tethys, a device that can measure the content of lead contamination in water with the help of carbon nanotubes. At the age of 11, she won the Discovery Education 3M Scientist Challenge and was listed by Forbes in the “30 Under 30” list for her innovations. Read more here.