Prashaant Ranganathan from Jamshedpur toped the Environmental Engineering category
Four Indian American students were among the 22 Best of Category winners in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair along with an Indian student Prashant Ranganathan.
Indian American student Prathik Naidu of Potomac Falls, Virginia, is the winner in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics category while Adam Nayak of Portland, Oregon, toped Earth and Environmental Sciences category.
Other Indian Americans in the list are Rahul Subramanian of Cos Cobs, Connecticut, in Microbiology and Karthik Yegnesh of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, in Mathematics.
Prashaant Ranganathan from Jamshedpur won the award for the Environmental Engineering category. Prashaant proposed an innovative way to tackle the growing environmental hazards caused by pesticides through degradable use.
The top three winners of the competition were chosen from winners of 22 categories. 18-year-old Ivo Zell of Lorch, Germany, bags the $75,000 top prize, Gordon E. Moore Award, for designing and constructing a remote control prototype of a new “flying wing” aircraft.
Amber Yang, 18, of Windermere, Florida and Valerio Pagliarino, 17, of Castelnuovo Calcea, Italy, received the two Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards of $50,000.
In addition to the top winners, approximately 600 finalists received awards and prizes for their innovative research, including 22 Best of Category winners, who each received a $50,000 prize. The Intel Foundation also awarded a $1,000 grant to each winner’s school and to the affiliated fair they represent.
“As our world grows increasingly complex, we need innovative, transformative ideas to identify new solutions to our world’s most intractable challenges.
Congratulations to all our finalists as well as our top three winners on their extraordinary research projects,” Maya Ajmera, president and CEO of Society for Science & the Public and publisher of Science News said in a news media statement.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of Society for Science & the public is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. It encourages millions of students to explore their passion for developing innovations that improve the way we make and live.
All finalists are selected by an affiliated, local competition and receive an all-expense-paid trip to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. This year’s fair is funded jointly by Intel and the Intel Foundation with additional support from dozens of corporate academic, government and science-focused sponsors.