Class 10 student wins Google coding contest with project to identify Down Syndrome kids
Class 10 student wins Google coding contest with project to identify Down Syndrome kids
A class 10 girl recently won the Google India Code to Learn 2020 national contest with her machine learning project to identify children with Down Syndrome.
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UPDATED: February 6, 2021 22:43 IST
A class 10 girl recently won the Google India Code to Learn 2020 national contest with her machine learning project to identify children with Down Syndrome.
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Saanvi Mehra, a class 10 student of The Shri Ram Millenium School in Noida has won the Google India Code to Learn 2020.
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New Delhi, February 6
Fifteen-year-old Saanvi Mehra has designed a project to identify children afflicted with Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder, through their photographs.
Designed as part of a project submitted to Google India Code to Learn contest 2020, this tool has the potential of saving more than 20,000 children s lives annually in India alone.
This landmark innovation not only secured Saanvi a victory in the contest in the Class IX-X category, but will also be a boon for the children suffering from Down Syndrome.
Saanvi, a student of The Shriram Millennium School, Noida, chose this project as Down Syndrome’s prevalence in India is estimated at roughly one out of every thousand children (1:1000), leading to over 30,000 children being born every year with this genetic disorder. In India, the survival rate is barely 44%.
Class X student designs machine learning project to identify Down Syndrome through photographs ANI | Updated: Feb 04, 2021 16:08 IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI/NewsVoir): 15-year-old Saanvi Mehra has designed a project to identify children afflicted with Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder, through their photographs. Designed as part of a project submitted to Google India Code to Learn contest 2020, this tool has the potential of saving more than 20,000 children s lives annually in India alone.
This landmark innovation not only secured Saanvi a victory in the contest in the Class 9-10 category, but will also be a boon for the children suffering from Down Syndrome. Further details can be accessed at mehrasaanvi.wordpress.com.