At the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) the Indian students won six awards in the US where the grand winner of “Google Thinking Big Award” is from New Delhi and that is none other than Shreyas Kapur. Intel Corporation and the Society for Science and the Public in Arizona this month launched Indian team which is having 16 students won a total of $9,500 in three grand awards and other three special awards in the biotechnology field, medicine field, biomedical engineering, and mathematics, declared by Intel in a statement on Tuesday.
The award is won by Kapur from Modern School at Barakhamba Road said, “project that addresses a large and seemingly-impossible problem, by finding an elegant solution with broad impact”. “Cellphone-based Optometry using Hybrid Images” is his project which also won him third position in both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Biomedical Engineering award.
The second position is occupied by Arvind Krishna Ranganathan from Ecole Mandiale World School in Mumbai for his project known as, “Deterministic Approach to the Position, Trajectory, and Collision Prediction of Particles within Bounded Two-Dimensional Environments”.
The third position is occupied by Suhani Sachin Jain and Divya Kranthi of Centre Point School in Nagpur in Plant Sciences for developing an “Innovative Strategy using Endophytes for Effective Biocontrol of Insect Pests in Cotton”.
The fouth award goes to Vasudev Malyan of Maharaja Agarsain Public School in Delhi in translational medical science for the development of “Novel Paper Sensor as a Diagnostic Test for Multiple Sclerosis”.