Fighting fire with machine learning: two students use TensorFlow to predict wildfires

Whenever I get a chance, I pick up my camera and spend hours capturing the immaculate beauty of Big Basin Redwood State Park. It's been my favorite pastime for years. Giant sequoias, which are the world's largest single trees and largest living thing by volume, always help me understand our connection with something bigger than ourselves. Last year, those towering trees were being turned into ashes by wildfires. Watching the destruction of centuries-old trees, I challenged myself to find a solution to stop this colossal loss. When I was 15 years old, I had started a nonprofit organization, Raindrop US, to help raise awareness about the California drought.