11-year-old Girl Wins $25,000 Science Prize For Creating A Cheap Device to Test Drinking Water For Poison

Gitanjali Rao, a seventh grader from Colorado, has been granted the title of "America's best young researcher" for outlining a reduced gadget to identify lead in drinking water, which she accepts can be quicker and less expensive than other flow techniques. 

The 11-year-old's creation was propelled by the water emergency in Flint, Michigan, where taken a toll slicing measures prompted corrupted drinking water that contained lead and different poisons. It likewise won her a $25,000 prize, for which Rao as of now has plans: "I intend to utilize its majority in building up my gadget encourage with the goal that it can be economically accessible soon," she said

Rao who goes to the STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, initially presented the plan to the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a yearly youth science and designing rivalry for center school understudies in the US, initiated in 2008. She was granted a 3-month mentorship with Kathleen Shafer, an examination expert who grows new plastics advances:
“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.