Cyberbullying persists and Trisha Prabhu wants you to ‘ReThink’ before you type

What started as Trisha Prabhu’s science fair project at Naperville’s Scullen Middle School eventually turned into a finalist at the Google Science Fair, a small business, a deal winner on Shark Tank, and most recently, a winner of a $100,000 grant via The Lonely Hearts Club Funding Challenge. Her company is called ReThink, a “nonintrusive, patented technology that effectively detects and stops online hate before the damage is done.”“I want to try and think about how we can tackle cyberbullying before it happens,” Prabhu said on The Rundown podcast. Prabhu talked to host Erin Allen about her personal experience with cyberbullying and how she hopes young people can employ that age-old advice from our elders – “think before you speak” – but fit it into a very contemporary medium: the internet.