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Indian girl shines in Google science fair
A Class 11 student from Mohali, Punjab, has made it to the final stage of the Google Science Fair, 2013.
A Class 11 student from Mohali, Punjab, has made it to the final stage of the Google Science Fair, 2013. Srishti Asthana, a 15-year-old student of Millenium School, is the only participant from India who has made it among the top 15 finalists of the Google Science Fair and was chosen from thousands of participants from 120 countries
Asthana presented a project on green technique for the degradation of detergents. The inspiration for this project came when Srishti went on a field trip to Ludhiana and was disturbed by the extent of damage done to the environment by industry disposal waste. Thus began her sojourn to find a green solution to turn waste detergent water from industrial waste into an eco-friendly alternative.
The finalists will be taken to the Google Mountain View headquarters, USA on September 23 to present their projects to an international panel of scientists for the final round of judging. The grand prize winner will receive a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions, $50,000 in scholarship funding and more.
The Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic and Scientific American and started in January 2011. The competition is open to 13–18- year-old students around the globe, who formulate a hypothesis, perform an experiment, and present their results.
