West Dallas had too few air-quality monitors to track pollution across large areas; a Plano teen built an AI model to estimate neighborhood air quality, later reaching 60 schools and training 300 youth ambassadors
- Technology is only one part of Tan's approach.
- Shared Skies created a 50-page environmental justice guide in English and Spanish and distributed it to more than 60 low-income schools, reaching approximately 30,000 students.
- At 17, Nathan Tan has already taken on a problem that can be difficult even for adults to see, let alone solve: the invisible pollution hanging over neighborhoods where families have spent years carrying a disproportionate share of the environmental burden.
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- Technology is only one part of Tan's approach.
- Shared Skies created a 50-page environmental justice guide in English and Spanish and distributed it to more than 60 low-income schools, reaching approximately 30,000 students.
- At 17, Nathan Tan has already taken on a problem that can be difficult even for adults to see, let alone solve: the invisible pollution hanging over neighborhoods where families have spent years carrying a disproportionate share of the environmental burden.
Sources: Times of India