{"id":365,"date":"2025-10-13T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/?p=365"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:29:53","slug":"a-girl-from-the-us-has-been-named-kid-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/a-girl-from-the-us-has-been-named-kid-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A girl from the US has been named &#8220;Kid of the Year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-369 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/A-girl-from-the-US-has-been-named-Kid-of-the-Year-1.jpg\" alt=\"A girl from the US has been named Kid of the Year\" width=\"365\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/A-girl-from-the-US-has-been-named-Kid-of-the-Year-1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/A-girl-from-the-US-has-been-named-Kid-of-the-Year-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tejaswi Manoj, 16, from the United States, has been named TIME&#8217;s &#8220;Kid of the Year&#8221; for 2025 for creating Shield Seniors, a project that helps seniors recognize and prevent online scams, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7315024\/kid-of-the-year-2025\/\">TIME<\/a> magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The idea came about after her 85-year-old grandfather nearly fell for a $2,000 scam by posing as a relative asking for a loan. Tejaswi was struck by how vulnerable seniors are to such attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">According to the FBI, in 2024, cybercriminals caused more than $16 billion in losses, almost $5 billion of which was incurred by victims over 60. The number of cases of seniors losing over $10,000 has quadrupled in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tejaswi developed the Shield Seniors website, which includes four sections: cybersecurity basics training, a chatbot for simple answers to questions, an AI-powered tool for analyzing suspicious messages (with 95% accuracy), and links to official resources for filing complaints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The website was created with the needs of senior users in mind, featuring large fonts, easy navigation, and a calm color scheme. It is currently operating in private mode and awaiting funding to launch online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Besides the project, Tejaswi is an active volunteer. She helps at a food bank, teaches Bhutanese refugees, plays in a school orchestra, and recently became a Cub Scout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important for seniors to feel confident online and know they&#8217;re not alone,&#8221; says Tejaswi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She protects seniors from cybercriminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getfullcare.com\/club-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}