The Children’s Climate Prize (CCP) was started by the Swedish company Telge Energi. It’s been given every year since 2016 to a person between the ages of 12 and 17 who has made “great efforts” to improve life on the planet for children now and in the future. This year (2021), lots of young people from 32 different countries were nominated(提名) for the prize. And the winner was announced on Monday.
Winner: Reshma Kosaraju
15-year-old Reshma Kosaraju lives in Saratoga, California. Her idea was to use AI to predict where forest fires might happen.To build her deep learning model, she used weather information like temperature, wind speed, and how dry the soil is. She also looked at human behavior. Her model can predict where and when forest fires are most likely to happen, and it’s right about 90% of the time.
Finalist(决赛选手)：Yash Narayan
Yash Narayan is 17 and lives in San Carlos, California. He also used AI for his project. He created a smartphone app called DeepWaste. Yash realized that a lot of waste could be avoided if people had a simple system for deciding what could be recycled, what could be composted, and what was truly rubbish.
Finalist：Lesein Mutunkei
Lesein Mutunkei, a 17-year-old from Nairobi, Kenya was named a finalist for his work in fighting deforestation, which means forests are destroyed. His project is called Trees For Goals (T4G). It encourages soccer teams to plant 11 trees for every goal scored (one for each player). Already, over 1,500 trees have been planted, and Lesein is working to spread the idea further. He would really like to get the soccer group FIFA to give support to the idea.
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