{"id":4682,"date":"2017-02-09T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:33:58","slug":"a-dubai-17-year-old-just-made-history-at-the-drones-for-good-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/announcements\/a-dubai-17-year-old-just-made-history-at-the-drones-for-good-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dubai 17-Year-Old Just Made History At The Drones For Good Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dubai-based 17-year-old,\u00a0Dhruv Karthik has just become the youngest-ever finalist in the Drones For Good competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karthik beat out\u00a0hundreds of teams of\u00a0university professors, graduate students, and robotics professionals, and was selected as the only individual finalist, and entrant from the UAE\u00a0in the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This means he will be in the finals on February 17 and\u00a018, battling it out to win AED1 million prize money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At just 17 years of age, Karthik designed his drone, Firefly which was inspired by the fires at The Address Downtown Dubai on New Year’s Eve in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His drone is designed to search apartments during fires for stranded people.\u00a0<\/p>\n