Nine students to represent India in top science competition

New Delhi, Apr 18 (PTI) A nine-member student team
will represent India at the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2011 to be held in Los Angeles,
California next month.
The students are winners of the India Initiative for
Research & Innovation in Science (IRIS) jointly organised by
Department of Science and Technology, CII and Intel.
The primary objective of IRIS is to promote and
nurture science and scientific research among the young Indian
innovators in secondary and higher secondary schools.
These students will represent India at the world's
largest pre-college science fair, and the only global science
competition for students in grades 9-12.
Over 1,300 IRIS project entries were received from
across the country under 10 categories that included a range
of solutions in the field of physical and life sciences,
mathematics, engineering and social sciences.
Out of these, 88 projects were showcased at IRIS 2010
held at the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai, in the western
Indian state of Maharashtra and six projects by nine students
were shortlisted to represent India at ISEF.
The team comprises of Akansha Verma, Abhishek Khanna
and Diksha Gupta from Maharaja Agrasen School, New Delhi;
Raghavendra Ramachanderan of St John's International
Residential School, Chennai; Manosij Ghosh Dastidar of South
Point School, Kolkata; Hetal and Ankur Vaishnav of S G
Dholakia School and P V Modi School, Rajkot, respectively.
Pramoda N V and Bhargava C S from Shree Ramakrishna
High School, Puttur, Karnataka are also among the nine-member
team.
The students met Indian Science and Technology
Minister P K Bansal here.