Bengaluru:
They could all be budding scientists. A student from Hoskote in Bengaluru rural district and five other high school students of Karnataka have done the state proud by being selected to represent India at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) to be held in May 2013 in Arizona, USA, along with a few other students from around the country.
An SSLC student of the Citizens High School in Hoskote, M. Yeshwanth, was selected based on his discovery that you can kill pythogenic bacterial growth using Bauhinia leaves. The Bauhinia, known as camel foot (and locally as Basavana Paada) has high anti-bacterial quality.
“I am very happy to be going to the fair in USA as I have never stepped outside Bengaluru . I cannot express how wonderful it feels to be representing my country in a science fair. Besides my parents I’d like to thank my teachers and project guide, G. Eshwaraiah from Vijaywada,” said an elated Yeshwanth.
The national selection fair in New Delhi saw 111 research based projects, of which 40 were from Karnataka. All projects were supported by extensive research done by students from Classes V to XII.
Yeshwanth said said he spent four months working on his project.
“The testing was done in our school lab. The pathogenic bacteria such as bacillius suvtilis cause diseases like endo cardatis and meningitis,” he explained, adding that he intended to study the subject in greater depth now that his project had been selected for presentation at an international event.
Nayana K R and Aishwarya C A from Amrtita Vidyalayam in Davangere have won a berth in the international fest for a mathematical science project in which they presented Vaina’s Square Lemma: Extension of Pythagoras Theorem on division of square into [N2 + 1] equal square.
Himanbindu T V and Bhargavi N Sarod of the Amrita School have won a place on the basis of their chemistry project.
Mahesh K of the St Philomena High School in Puttur too will participate in the fair.
source: http://www.DeccanChronicle.com / Home> News> Current Affairs / by Amit S. Upadhye, DC / December 06th, 2012