Teenpreneurs

Bengaluru-based Nikhiya Shamsher started working on cancer research way back in Grade 9. Three years later, she's still making breakthroughs. Her invention, QuickPuff, is an early risk detector of oral cancer and pre-cancer, identifying a biomarker in your saliva. It's been tested on 500 patients and is priced at Rs 38. Shamsher, who will start university at Stanford next year, talks about what it took to get here, and where the project still needs to go, on this episode

Seventeen-year-old Siddhant Sinha was alarmed when he realised how much carbon dioxide his Delhi school, which ran on diesel generators, was emitting. He set up Sun Foundation soon after to help install solar rooftop panels at educational institutes in India, and to educate students about climate change. Listen to him talk about what it takes to convince schools to switch to solar, the solar clinics he runs, future plans, funding and more on this week's episode

After losing his grandfather at age 13, Hosur-based Akash Manoj channeled the trauma into years of heart attack research, working in government and private labs. Now, he claims his device can detect a heart attack six hours before it occurs

Sumeet Motwani is working on a machine learning model to detect the coronavirus through chest X-rays or CT scans, and is in talks with hospitals in Mumbai for implementation

Gurgaon-based Aarushi Nema has built a bot modeled on Jarvis, an enterprise solution that harnesses AI technology to better customer experiences and improve productivity

20-yr-old UP boy Dhruv Tomar has made a portable testing solution that lets you quickly validate the quality of 14 kinds of milk without the use of any chemicals, or the need for any expertise—a serious health hazard in India

The teenager did an exchange programme in Belgium and realised how inadequate sexual education is in India. Now, she runs an 80-member team that does workshops on good and bad touch, puberty, healthy boundaries and other sex-related topics for students, verified by professionals

Rutik Thorat, himself a victim of sickle cell disease—a condition he lost his father to—joins us on this episode to discuss his mission to give people the best possible treatment. The teenager made modest beginnings, bunking school to do hospital rounds, but has recently filed a provisional patent on his Covid-19 drug therapy

Having lived through a fire scare, young Shiv Kampani turned the trauma into an idea: An Iot-enabled gas leak detector that inspired a full-fledged company, and Kampani into a CEO, while still in high school