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7 Indian students make the country proud at the Intel ISEF Awards 2016
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the largest international pre-college science competition in the world saw excited participation by students from across the world. 7 Indian students shone out with their achievements and inventions.
Once again Indian mindpower has proved its prowess at a prestigious international platform. The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the largest international pre-college science competition in the world, was held in the US on May 24 and saw excited students from across the globe participate in the exalted event. The ISEF was organized by Society for Science & the Public in partnership with the Intel Foundation in Phoenix.
The participants ranged from the entire world but there was small contingent in itself of students from India as well as of Indian-origin. Several of them have done India proud in the competition. The winners belong to 9th through 12th grades. In order to compete at the Intel ISEF Awards 2016, the students qualified by winning top prizes at local, regional, state or national science fairs.
Here is looking at the 7 bright young minds who did the tricolour proud. 17-year old Shreyas Kapur of Modern School Barakhamba Road, New Delhi stood third in the biomedical engineering category. His innovative work on cellphone based optometry using hybrid images won him a USD 1000 prize. 15-year-old Suhani Sachin Jain and 16-year-old Divya Kranthi from Centre Point School in Nagpur also won the third prize. There work revolved around protecting the highly sensitive cotton crop from insects and pests by using endophytes.
The Translational Medical Science category saw 18-year-old Vasudev Malyan from Maharaja Agarsain Public School, New Delhi take the third place. He had designed and carried out a diagnostic test for multiple sclerosis using a novel paper sensor.
Apart from Indian students, many Indian-origin students from the US and Australia emerged winner at the Intel ISEF. Here is a look at their impressive roster. 17-year-old Swetha Revanur from Evergreen Valley High School, San Jose, California was awarded the Dudley R Herschbach SIYSS Award. She claimed the prize for a machine learning framework for multi-omics discovery and characterisation of gene co-alterations impacting disease.
18-year-old Rajeev Jha, who is the President of the Theodore Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, notched by an impressive 3 awards. He won in the trip to EU contest for biochemical characterization and imaging of arc: ‘Insights into Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s Development’. He also won 2 awards in the behavioral and social sciences category, including the Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of USD 5,000. Prashant Godishala of Breck School in Golden Valley, Minnesota won best of category award of $5,000.