Change maker: Local student promotes biodiversity with nonprofit Project ARISE

Change maker: Local student promotes biodiversity with nonprofit Project ARISE

Carmel Valley resident and Bishop’s School student Sophie Zeng is an eco hero on the rise. With her nonprofit Project ARISE, she is hoping to use technology to help solve environmental issues like the removal of harmful invasive species. Sophie and co-founder and fellow Bishop’s senior Grace Yao have used their coding and computer programming smarts to create an AI algorithm that can identify invasive species. The goal is to implement the techno…