STEM whiz is first Time 'Kid of the Year'

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The first-ever Time magazine "Kid of the Year" has a message for students seeking a science, technology, engineering and math career: Don't let your gender or ethnicity get in the way of your efforts."I don't look like your typical scientist. Everything I see on TV is that it's an older, usually white man as a scientist," Gitan-jali Rao, 15, of Lone Tree, Colorado, said in an interview with actor Angelina Jolie on the time.com website. "It's weird to me that it was almost like people had assigned roles, regarding like their gender, their age, the color of their skin.