Indian students had won six awards at The Prestigious Intel International Science and Engineering Fair  in the US.

The Intel Fair 2016 was conducted on  24th May at Arizona and the students from all over the world participated in it. The 16 students from India won a total of $9,500 in three grand awards along with three special awards in the field of bio medical engineering, biotechnology, mathematics and medicine.

Student winners in the competition are from 9th to 12th grades who earned the prestigious Intel ISEF 2016. 16 Indian students were selected in order to participate in ISEF as finalists of the initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS) 2016. Approximately 1700 young scientists are selected from 419 affiliate fairs conducted within 77 countries.

Shreyas Kapur from New Delhi won ‘The Google Thinking Big Award’. He is a student of Modern School at Barakhamba Road, New Delhi and he earned USD 1,000 for his work on ‘cell phone based optometry with the utilization of hybrid images’. Moreover, the project also helped him to won the third rank in both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Biomedical Engineering Award.

Arvind Krishna Ranganathan from Ecole Mondiale World School in Mumbai was awarded the second place for his project “Deterministic Approach to the Position, Trajectory and Collision Prediction of Particles within Bounded Two-Dimensional Environments”.

Suhani Sachin Jain and Divya Kranthi of Centre Point School in Nagpur won the third award in plant sciences for creating an “Innovative Strategy using Endophytes for Effective Biocontrol of Insect Pests in Cotton”.

- Mayuka.