FRISCO, Texas — A North Texas high school student who created an app to protect seniors against cybercrime can now add being named TIME magazine's Kid of the Year to her list of accomplishments.

Tejasvi Manoj, a student at Frisco ISD's Lebanon Trail High School, started the process of building Shield Seniors after receiving a call in 2024 while heading home from a Scouting America camp that her 85-year-old grandfather had been targeted in an email scam seeking $2,000 to settle an unexpected debt for a family member, as TIME reported.

"Given the apparent emergency, Tejasvi’s grandfather was prepared to transfer the funds—but her father urged him not to and the grandfather, at the suggestion of his wife, then called the uncle to see if the request was legitimate," TIME's story reads.

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