Meet Nathan Tan, the 17-year-old Plano teen whose AI air-quality project serves about 1,000 Texans, trained 300 youth ambassadors and won him a $10,000 prize

Meet Nathan Tan, the 17-year-old Plano teen whose AI air-quality project serves about 1,000 Texans, trained 300 youth ambassadors and won him a $10,000 prize

A 17-year-old student from Plano, Texas, has built an artificial intelligence tool to track air pollution in vulnerable neighborhoods, winning a national award and $10,000 for his work. Nathan Tan started the non-profit group Shared Skies Initiative to fight environmental inequality across Dallas, where poorer communities and minority families often breathe dirtier air but lack local pollution monitors.