Celebrating the world’s brightest student entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists, Intel Corporation and Society for Science & the Public announced the top winners of the world's largest pre-college science competition: the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Four Indian students were recipients of the prestigious Intel Science and Engineering Fair 2010 at San Jose, California.
Three students from South Point High School, Kolkata emerged as winners - Anarta Roy, Manosij Ghosh Dastidar and Aritra Chowdhury. Manosij and Anarta Roy received $1000 each for winning the Third Place Grand Award, Team projects for their project on the designing of a Novel; Low-cost, Easy to Use, Auto-disposable Syringe - Aritra Chowdhury was awarded an Honorable Mention award for his project on extraction of Natural Carbonaceous Nanomaterials from Soil Sources: Exploration of Properties and Applications. He also won the Fourth place Grand award, Chemistry receiving $500.
Kaushik Srivatsan Krishna Swamy, a student of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Mandya won the Second Award of $500 U.S. savings bond, AVASC-Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty Foundation and Third Place Grand Award, Plant Sciences for investigation of Antimicrobial Property of Ervatamia coronaria Flower, receiving $1,000. Amy Chyao, of Richardson, Texas received $75,000 and the Gordon E. Moore Award, given for the first time in honor of the Intel co-founder and retired chairman and CEO.
“The 1,600 youths from around the world who attended last week’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair showed me that the next generation of scientific and technological innovation is exciting and thriving,” said Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini. “I hope that the energy these high school students exhibit about math and science will inspire yet another generation of innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs which will improve our world.”
Dr. Praveen Vishakantaiah, President Intel India said, “As a global technology company, Intel is proud of the work that we do to help shape the global youth community for the future technology revolution. All eight students who represented India at ISEF this year demonstrate the capabilities of our country in the field of Math and Science. Aritra, Manosij, Anarta and Kaushik are winners at a global platform like ISEF and make us all very proud. We wish them all the very best for a bright and prosperous future. All participating students are high scholastic achievers and looking at their capabilities and potential we are convinced that India represents a 21st century knowledge economy nurturing the next generation innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs”
This year, competition consisted of 1,611 young scientists from 59 countries, regions and territories. In addition to the three top prizes, the Intel Foundation awarded $8,000 to each of 19 "Best of Category" winners and also provided $1,000 grants to the winners’ schools and the affiliated fairs they represent. More than 600 additional awards and prizes were provided by dozens of other corporate, academic, government and science-focused sponsors for their groundbreaking work.
