Epic Kids, September 2022

Student Earns Prestigious Honor

Hamilton High School sophomore Prisha Shroff created an AI-based Wildfire Prevention, Detection, and Suppression System that won the 2022 Broadcom Coding with Commitment recognition and Lemelson Award for Invention at the 2021 Broadcom MASTERS competition, along with earning her a nod as one of this year’s “Junior Achievement of Arizona’s 18 Under 18” winners.

The Chandler resident is inventing the changes she wants to see in the world. She is currently working on applying STEAM knowledge and coding to reduce the impact of climate change by designing solutions such as a water-saving shower head, solar-powered drones, designing a tool that predicts how crops will adapt to a changing climate, and working with NASA on a rover project.