Meet Angelina Tsuboi, a 16-year-old pilot and app developer who is using her skills and passion to provide others \u2014 particularly women and people of color \u2014 with resources to pursue careers in aviation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I was a kid, the superpower I\u2019ve always wanted was to fly,\u201d she said. \u201cAviation was the closest thing I could get to that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But her journey wasn\u2019t easy. Obtaining a pilot\u2019s license costs thousands \u2014 if not tens of thousands \u2014 of dollars in coursework and flight time. To fund her training, Angela put a lot of energy into searching for scholarships. The more time she spent in aviation, however, the more she started to notice that most people in the industry don\u2019t look like her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. <\/em>Sign up for The 74 Newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p> So she sought to help aspiring pilots, especially women and people of color, gain access to aviation by developing an app, Pilot Fast Track<\/a>, to connect them with a marketplace of scholarships to offset the daunting cost of flight training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another one of her apps, Pocket CPR<\/a>, is an Apple Watch product that provides a real-time guide to administer CPR, and it won the 2022 Apple Swift Student Challenge, which tasks students with creating an \u201can incredible app playground<\/a>.\u201d She was invited to Apple headquarters where she met Apple CEO Tim Cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Angelina says she wants to continue working on projects that make the world a better place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGlobal problems have local roots,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd by tackling a small problem within your general community\u2026 you can impact a global problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here to see & share Tsuboi\u2019s story<\/a> \u2014 and check out this other recent coverage of teenagers breaking new ground in STEM: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch: 17-Year-Old Makes History By Sequencing Genome of Pet Fish<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Teen\u2019s Research on Bees\u2019 Memory Is Helping Avert Colony Collapse Disorder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Florida Teen Invents World\u2019s First Sustainable Electric Vehicle Motor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 14-Year-Old Wins $25,000 Prize For Robotic Hand He Built For Less Than $100<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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