Tejasvi Manoj, a 17-year-old from Collin County, is already one of the most accomplished humans on the planet and was just recognized as Time magazine’s 2025 “Kid the Year.”
Tejasvi developed Shield Seniors which, according to the Dallas Morning News, is “a platform to educate older adults by using artificial intelligence to analyze potential scams and help report cybercrimes.”
“I want to educate these older adults so that they will be able to be more independent online, more confident online,” she said. “I want to make … them as comfortable as possible.”
The program helps older adults analyze, identify and report scams by using AI to assess if a message is fraudulent. The website is designed to educate adults age 60 and up on cybersecurity.
Tejasvi got the idea for her app at age 15 when her grandfather was almost duped by a scammer posing as another family member in an email urgently asking for money.
She reached out to mentors, college departments and online tutorials for help learning how to create the software.
“It was not easy,” said Tejasvi’s father, Manoj Ganapathy. “Somewhere, in the depth of her heart, she wanted to do it.”
A senior at Lebanon Trail High School in Frisco, Tejasvi now has her sights set on college. “I want to go to a university that’s going to support me and support my mission,” she said. “I just want to make sure that I’m able to make a difference.
Thus far, she’s eyeing MIT, “any of the Ivies,” the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, Georgia Tech, and the University of Texas.
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