11-year-old girl wins $25,000 science prize over water poison testing device

According to Rao, her invention was galvanized by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, wherever cost-cutting measures crystal rectifier to tainted water that contained lead and different toxins.

“I plan to use most of it in developing my device further so that it can be commercially available soon,” she said

Rao WHO attends the STEM college in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, was additionally awarded a 3-month mentorship with Kathleen Shafer, an enquiry specialist WHO develops new plastics technologies, once she won together with herinvention plan submitted to the invention Education 3M Young soul Challenge, AN annual youth science and engineering competition for Gymnasium students within the U.S.A., inaugurated in 2008.

“Gitanjali’s concept was at a very early stage at the beginning of our mentorship. She had thought of this idea earlier this year, only a few weeks before the submission deadline,” Shafer said.