Harshita Krupadanam, a junior at the Quarry Lane School in Dublin, California, was selected as one of 215 students chosen from a group of 10,000 applicants worldwide to attend the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute, a two-week long virtual event, earlier this fall, hosted in conjunction with the Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium.
After seeing the plight of farmers losing their crops to unseasonal rains in India and suffering further from COVID-19 suppression measures, the Indian American student researched and proposed engineering solutions for on-site temporary storage of harvested crops, according to a news release.
She submitted her innovative designs for âharvest podsâ in a paper, Harvest Loss Prevention Using On-site Storage, to the World Food Prize Foundation Summer Youth Institute.