Teenager invents award-winning device against poachers

Anika Puri, now a graduate of MIT, won the Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication at age seventeen during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2022. She developed EISa (elephant savior), an AI-powered device that uses a drone with thermal and infrared images to distinguish elephants from potential poachers based on their movement patterns. The system uses an...