Going Deep with Gitanjali Rao on Gen Z Ambitions
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
I’ve known a few 17 year-olds in my day, I bet you have too. I hadn’t yet met someone so young and already so effective. Gitanjali Rao, Time’s “Kid of the Year”, has a patent already and several more innovative projects in the works. This is a conversation for anyone who is looking for hope about a future that can feel daunting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about the |
| 0:09.5 | personality, the mood and the capabilities of Gen Z. My thought partner is a very young |
| 0:17.2 | woman named Gatangeli Rao. You may know her, she was time magazine's kid of the year. She's |
| 0:25.6 | a scientist and an inventor and has no idea why anyone, if they had a question about how a computer |
| 0:32.8 | works, wouldn't take the whole thing apart and try to put it back together again. In other words, |
| 0:38.8 | she is the perfect thought partner for a conversation about what might be if we could just set these kids |
| 0:46.6 | free on the biggest problems we've so far failed to solve. So join us for Kelly Corrigan Wonders, |
| 0:53.3 | we'll be right back with Gatangeli Rao. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan, so contaminated water, |
| 1:16.2 | drug addiction, cyberbullying, headline after Kyron after special report, the overwhelm is understandable |
| 1:24.5 | and problematic, we just cannot afford to peter out and that's why we need people like Gatangeli |
| 1:30.6 | Rao who might just be the CTO of the future thanks to two inventive schools mentors and labs across |
| 1:38.4 | the country and internet connection and two parents who couldn't wait to see what their kids could |
| 1:44.0 | figure out on their own. Gatangeli is a next-generation innovator who can't stop trying to fix things |
| 1:51.9 | from opioid addiction to lead in the water. Here is my conversation originally recorded for my |
| 1:58.4 | PBS show Tell Me More with innovator and path habitual problem solver and 17-year-old Gatangeli Rao. |
| 2:07.6 | Hey, welcome to New York City, thank you for being here. |
| 2:13.3 | Yeah, so this season has a theme what is it take to make it in America today and in researching that |
| 2:21.5 | we started thinking about the most basic stuff like water and that took us to Flint, Michigan |
| 2:26.5 | and that took us to an 11-year-old who was cold calling chemistry professors. The story broke |
| 2:32.1 | in 2014 you were nine. Do you remember first hearing about it? I do actually it was a very prevalent |
| 2:40.0 | moment in my life because it was no a day where my entire family was at the dinner table and the |
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