Meet Aaryan Ghorpade, the North Carolina student who built a prototype for a free roadkill-mapping platform and has now won a first-place award for his plan to make American roads safer for wildlife
North Carolina student Aaryan Ghorpade has won a national competition after creating a free online mapping tool designed to reduce wildlife deaths on American roads. Ghorpade took first place in the 16 to 18 age group of the 2024 “A Voice for Animals” contest with his project, “EcoRoute: Mitigating Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions.” The annual competition is…