Meet Tanishka Aglave, the 17-year-old Valrico, Florida student who built a curry leaf treatment, steam system and AI tool to fight citrus greening; she won $50,000
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The research was started by Aglave as a freshman and took over 300 hours to complete, often working two hours in the laboratory every other day after school.
For Tanishka Aglave, citrus greening isn’t simply a problem that exists in textbooks or agricultural research papers.
She watched it take a toll on Florida citrus growers, including her own family, growing up.
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The research was started by Aglave as a freshman and took over 300 hours to complete, often working two hours in the laboratory every other day after school.
For Tanishka Aglave, citrus greening isn’t simply a problem that exists in textbooks or agricultural research papers.
She watched it take a toll on Florida citrus growers, including her own family, growing up.