(Part 2 of 4) A Colorado teenager has been named the first ever "Kid Of The Year." Also, some artists spend their entire lives creating their work, we look at a man who became an artist accidentally.
A colorado teenager has been named the first ever "kid of th year."
Time magazine and nickelodeon gave gitanjali rao the honor.
The 15-year-old is a scientist and inventor...who has tackled issues from water pollution to cyberbullying.
Nancy chen caught up with her.
"i'm a very curiou person&" gitanjali rao's ÁinsatiableÁ curiosity has landed her on the cover of time as the magazine's first ever "kid o the year."
2:47 with nancy "this is such great point in my journey.
So beyond exciting, unlike anything i could have ever imagined!"
The 15-year-old beat out more than five thousand other kids for her extraordinary accomplishments.
She caught the attention of cbs news 3 years ago after winning a national science competition.
Our adriana diaz visited rao at her home outside denver and witnessed first- hand her prize- winning invention that detects lead levels in water within seconds.
Looks like the water's safe alright!.
She created her device after closely following the flint water cris.
"that's no something that i want to go through, what the flint residents went through."
Rao has also developed apps to identify cyberbullying and opioid addiction.
But time magazine and nickelodeon pointed specifically to rao's leadership skills.
Even while being a full-time student, she runs workshops and has inspired more 33-thousand people around the world.
5:57 with nancy "there ar students who do want to make a positive impact, they just don't know where to start and i want to give them that starting point, that boost of encouragement."
As for what's next: she says more curiosity about anything and everything ÁandÁ finding new ways to make the world a better place.
Nancy chen, cbs news, new york.
Gitanjali will appear on the cover of time's weekly edition that hits newsstands this week.
Some artists spend their entire lives creating their work.
Others become artists by accident.
That is what happened to a man in england, who's sold dozens of pet portraits.
He says at first, he was only ÁpretendingÁ to be an artist.
It's turned into a way to lift people's spirits and help the community, as roxana saberi reports.
Phil heckels says he was never much of an artist & but a few weeks ago, he was trying to get his son sam to make a few thank-you cards ... "&and just to tr to get him interested, i said, 'hey, i'm going to draw a picture of narla, our dog.'" he drew this one & and this one& then he posted them on facebook, writing "for sale beautiful hand- drawn pictures of your favourite family pets&" & fo roughly 400 dollars each.
It was a joke& but serious requests began pouring in& thousands of them ..
So he began transforming picture of pets & into cartoons of cross-eyed dogs& long-legged cats& and more.
Ph: "i just i can' get my head around the fact that so many people seem to like what i'm doing.
// it is just bonkers."
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He signs his sketches with his pseudonym, "hercule van wolf winkle" ... and leaves funny fake 'customer' reviews, like... "'di you draw this in the dark..with your eyes closed?"
'it was all this tongue-in-cheek thing of i'd set up this business and have become a portrait artist.'
But when people offered to pay for their pet portraits & ... he asked them to donate instead& to a local homeless charity so far, he's raised over 45-thousand dollars rs: 'why do you think people like your drawings so much?'
Ph: "i don't know // i mean, i think the honest answer is they make people smile, and so, there's not a lot to smile about at the moment."
One man even turned 'hercule''s drawing & into a tattoo.
" there's no going back from that... and it was a terrible picture as well.
But i guess it was his dog."
'hercule' may not be the best artist in the world, but he might be one of the fastest ..
We watched him sketch this cute puppy named scott& ... and this police dog from henderson, texas& rs: how long do you think you're going to keep going?
Ph: right now, i can't see it stopping.
Sh: forever!
Ph: forever?
Well i don't know about forever, that's a long time& but this doodling dad says, if he can keep lifting spirits and raising money for a good cause & he won't put down his pencils anytime soon.
Roxana saberi, worthing, england.
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