Two ideas that came from government school students in Hubballi and developed under the guidance of science instructors have now made it to the Intel Iris National-Level Science Fest to be held in New Delhi.
The national-level science fest has been organised by Intel-IRIS, Confederation of Indian Industry and the Department of Science Technology and will be held on the campus of IIT New Delhi from December 4 to 7.
As many as 4,000 project synopses from across the country had been registered for the contest.
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The two projects that have been chosen for the national contest are ‘solar-operated sieve machine’, developed by Jivika Vikamshi of Parivartan Gurukul Heritage School and Deepa Kuradikeri of Government Higher Primary School, Gokul, and ‘natural energy utility from waste coconut leaves combined with rain tree pods’ developed by Shashank Bewoor of Rotary English Medium School and Pavan Byahatti of Government Higher Primary School, Gokul.
“The solar operated sieve machine helps clean different types of grain quickly and also it is affordable,” Deepa Kuradikeri , a Class 7 student who worked on the project for over three months along with Jivika, told The Hindu .
Pavan Byahatti, also a class 7 student, who worked on the project of fuel briquettes with Shashank Bewoor said that they were the cheapest ones to prepare.
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“We mixed them in different proportions and tested them. And finally we found that 70:30 ratio (coconut leaves: rain pods) was the best combination as it would burn for nearly one-and-half-hours and pollution is minimal,” he said.
Both Deepa Kuradikeri and Pavan Byahatti are happy as they are participating in a national event for the first time and that too in the national capital.
On Monday night, the contestants accompanied by guides Guru Madanalli, Sameer Ahmed Galagali and G.H. Bewoor left for New Delhi.