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Seven students to represent India at US science fair
Thursday April 26, 2012 06:58:57 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Seven
school students from across the country who excelled in a national
science project will go to the US to compete with more than 1,600
others from over 60 countries at a global fair, officials said
Thursday.
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday
congratulated the seven students, who won the national level
science projects-India Initiative for Research and Innovation in
Science (IRIS).
The seven students who won the IRIS projects will now travel to
the US to compete with more than 1,600 students from over 60
countries around the world, at the 2012 International Science and
Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Pittsburg, an official statement said.
Congratulating the seven students, Sibal said: "Through this
programme, we are endeavouring to reform the current state with an
emphasis on skill development by unlocking the creative talent
within the child. The paradigm shift is on the anvil."
"Learning and education must be child-centric to enable a child to
explore the world around him and face the future with confidence
and assurance," he added.
Among the seven students, three are from Delhi - Saral Baweja,
Nishi Paliwal (both from Maharaja Agrasen Public School) and
Shubham Goyal (DPS). Raghavendra Ramachandran from Chennai, Gargi
Pare from Madhya Pradesh, Omkar Singh Gujaral from West Bengal and
Sindura Saraswati from Karnataka are the other four who will be
going to the US.
The week-long science fair beginning in the second week of May is
an opportunity for the best young minds in the world to come
together to share ideas and showcase cutting-edge projects, the
statement added.
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