Throughout the school year, CBS Colorado, with the Chevron and the Colorado School of Mines, recognizes six high school students who excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM. The future Award leaders comes with $ 1,000 and a profile on CBS News Colorado.
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The last winner of the future Awarders Award is Siddhartha Aradhya, a senior in rock canyon High School in the county of Douglas.
ARADHYA takes a full load of advanced placement courses, but that does not prevent it from being on the track and the cross-country teams. He also works on several projects outside the school. Aradhya had first -hand experience with online predators.
“We had a false account, a false Instagram account and we received a lot of strange messages. We brought it to the police,” he said.
From this interaction, Aradhya had the idea of writing Catchchat, a program that helps online predators of the catfish.
“They are not always trained to speak like, let’s say, a 16 -year -old girl,” said Aradhya about investigators.
Catchchat AI can do it for them. Type the offender’s message in the program, and he can give you appropriate emojis or slang to continue the conversation. Currently, the Douglas County Sheriff Department is testing the Aradhya program.
“The goal is that we wanted to fully automate the process so that the police who are trained to do so many incredible things can then do these incredible things and not have to do something to which they are not trained,” said Aradhya.
Aradhya has created another computer program to help workers identify if the water is marred.
“It’s just a program where you would download microscopic images and see if these are certain types of algae,” he said.
Algae flowers are toxic in drinking water, so Aradhya develops a drone that would emout light to kill algae. This project is in the test phase.
“There are different parts of the experience you want to test, as what type of light? How far should the light go?”
“Is the environment a kind of passion?” asked for the first chief meteorologist of the Dave Aguilera alert.
“I really like dinosaurs,” replied Aradhya. “I have always been interested in environments and the natural world.”
“Did you go to Dinosaur Ridge?” Aguilera followed.
“Yes, I love Dinosaur Ridge,” replied Aradhya.
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He also likes to help his comrades. He sat on the student advisory committee at the County School Board of Douglas.
“I was more involved in financial literacy, so as to obtain a study program in schools that do not interfere as much with students,” he said.
“This is a great idea because there is not much,” said Aguilera.
“Yes, you know how to make algebra but not your taxes,” said Aradhya laughing.
He developed these lessons and created a non -profit organization called the more you know. Now, he shares knowledge with organizations that must offer financial literacy to their customers.
Aradhya plans to go to university, but he hopes to find the time to continue working on these projects that he has already started.
“More specifically, Catchchat is probably the one who fascinates me the most. I want to continue to automate it,” he said.
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