Srishti
Asthana, the 15-year-old student of Millenium School, has been named
among the top 15 finalists of the Google Science Fair, Google India said
in a statement. The Google Science Fair, started in January 2011, is an
online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National
Geographic and Scientific American.
The 15
finalists will be taken to the Google Mountain View headquarters, USA on
September 23 to present their projects to an international panel of
esteemed 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.
Sristi
presented a project named 'Solar Light Assisted nanoZnO Photo Catalytic
Mineralization - a Green Technique for the Degradation of Detergents'
and was chosen amongst thousands of participants 120 countries.
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