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Sachchit Balamurugan winning the mobile app competition at the 2025 Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida. [Photo via Sachchit Balamurugan]
North Texas Teen Creates AI Cancer Detection App, Flies to Tokyo to Present It
by David Seeley | Jun 25, 2025
Little Elm's Sachchit Balamurugan, an incoming senior at TOPS, flew to Japan Friday to present his ACC cancer detection app at the International Young Researchers’ Conference. He's also won first place at a BPA national mobile app competition, won an award at the NASA Space App Challenge, started a nonprofit called Youth Opportunities in Tech Innovation—and done lots, lots more.
by Quincy Preston |
Sep 11, 2023
In just five short months, the young CEO's company has sold over 177 STEM IT kits, designed to help kids code robotic projects and dive deeper into the world of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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by Meredith McGrath |
Jun 5, 2018
Through INCubatoredu and similar educational programs, students are solving real-world problems with their own products and services.
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