{"id":22333,"date":"2019-03-04T18:36:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=22333"},"modified":"2019-03-04T19:27:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:27:46","slug":"kavya-kopparapu-gliovision-national-stem-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/kavya-kopparapu-gliovision-national-stem-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American Kavya Kopparapu Wins National STEM Award for her AI Device for Brain Cancer Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Indian American community has made its presence felt in different walks of life, including education, business and politics, even though they constitute only 1% of the total US population<\/strong>. In our last article in the series of stories about young Indians<\/span><\/a>, we gave a shout-out to 17-year-old Jothi Ramaswamy from New York<\/span><\/a> who, inspired by her engineer mother, holds workshops to push girls for STEM careers as part of her nonprofit \u2018ThinkSTEAM\u2019.<\/p>\n 19-year-old Kavya Kopparapu from Virginia is the newest face of our \u2018Young Indian\u2019 series at Travel Beats, an overseas Indian community portal by<\/strong> Indian Eagle Travel<\/span><\/a>. Indian American Kavya Kopparapu has received the most coveted National STEM Education Award 2019 for her revolutionary invention having the sole objective of making treatments far more effective for glioblastoma, the most fatal form of brain cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n