Sahithi Pingali
Sahithi Pingali, a 16-year-old girl from Bengaluru, developed an app for cleaning the lakes in 2017. Sahithi collected the data of the polluted lakes of Bengaluru through her mobile app. Through the invention of her app, she was able to participate in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) which is one of the most prestigious pre-college-level science competitions in the world. Sahithi became one of the 2,000 finalists in the competition for her research paper. Her innovative invention was renowned all over the world. Even the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to name a planet after her in the Milky Way Galaxy.
