30 Indians win Intel awards

By agencies   |   Monday, 16 May 2005, 19:30 IST
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HOUSTON: Four Indian and 26 students of Indian origin from across the world have won a wide range of awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering fair, one of the world’s most prestigious pre-college science exhibitions. Mihir Tandon and Riddhiman Yadav, both students of Modern School Vasant Vihar in Delhi, have won scholarship awards of $1,000 for designing an improvised artificial limb for above-knee amputees. The Delhi students won the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance/Lemelson Foundation Prize that is awarded for creativity, technological innovation and commercial promise. Suvrata Desai, 16 and Mallika Dhillon Desai, 16, of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Goa, have won the second Award of $500 Savings Bond for their project "Traditional Spices as Biopesticides". These awards have been presented by the Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty (AVASC) Foundation for projects that display outstanding creativity, ingenuity and have the potential to alleviate the human condition or mark a substantive advance in the scientific field. Apart from this a total of 26 Indian origin students- 23 from America, two from Canada and one from Scotland have won prizes in various categories including, astronomy, physics, mathematics and physiology.