Meet Gitanjali Rao, Time Magazine's first-ever Kid of the Year

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 14.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a special episode featuring an old friend of ours -- scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao. Time Magazine recently named her the first-ever Kid of the Year! We first met Gitanjali back in 2018, when she was the co-host for a series of episodes we did all about water. Back then, she was a 12 year old who had recently won 2017 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Now, she's a very busy 15 year-old who is an inventor, STEM advocate and author. Molly and Gitanjali chat about how kids can turn their ideas into reality, and why kids shouldn't be afraid to share their viewpoints and skills with the world -- we need them! Gitanjali has also written a book, which you can check out here. Also, you can hear Gitanjali judge a very science-y Smash Boom Debate: Helium vs Neon! Check out the water series that Gitanjali co-hosted: What’s in your water? The wonderful weirdness of water Keeping water healthy, one clue at a time Burning rivers of fire See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hi friends, we are so excited to share that our other podcast, Smash Boom Best is
0:06.8	back for a brand new season.
0:09.4	If you haven't listened before, in every episode we pit two awesome things against each
0:13.7	other, have smart people argue it out and let you judge the winner.
0:18.4	It's a fact-filled, fantastic fight to the finish every time, and this season we have
0:23.0	some massive new match-ups like birthday parties versus trick-or-treating, Spider-Man versus
0:29.4	Batman and Mayo versus Mustard.
0:33.1	You'll hear veteran debaters like Jed Kim and Joy Dolor Duke it out with newbies like Ryan
0:38.5	Perez and Avery Trouffleman.
0:40.7	We need your help in deciding the winners, so check out the latest episodes now wherever
0:45.2	you listen to podcasts.
0:48.2	Hey there, Molly here.
0:52.5	By now you've probably heard me mention our incredible Smarty Pass for just $4 a month
0:58.0	and Smarty Pass gets you ad free feeds of all of our shows that's brains on forever ago,
1:03.4	Moment of Home and Smash Boom Best, and you get a special bonus episode every month.
1:09.2	If you don't subscribe, you'll still get your free feed like always, but subscribing
1:13.6	gets you ad free feeds and our special bonus episode every month.
1:19.7	In this month's bonus episode, I got a little overboard with my favorite debate game,
1:25.3	Sneak Attacks.
1:28.8	I know you're a Smarty Pass holder and that means you can come to brains on headquarters
1:32.3	whenever you like, but today couldn't be a worse day to come to HQ.
1:38.3	Molly's been surprising us with Sneak Attacks all day.
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