India, Sept. 9 -- Seventeen-year-old Tejasvi Manoj, an Indian American teenager from Texas, has been named TIME's Kid of the Year 2025. Born in California and raised in Dallas since the age of eight, she grew up in a household where both parents worked as software engineers.

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According to a report by The Global Indian, it was only in middle school that Tejasvi discovered her own passion for coding after joining Girls Who Code. "That's when I realised how amazing coding can be and how much I enjoy it. Moreover, I understood the impact I can make by learning to code, and I instantly knew I wanted to pursue it in the future," she recalled.

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