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Chennai boy Raghavendra Ramachanderan wins Chemistry award at international science fair
Posted on: 16/May/2011 11:56:20 PM
The Intel ISEF 2011 is a program called the `Society for Science and the Public` which was conducted in Los Angeles with over 1,500 high school students participating from 443 affiliate fairs in 65 countries, regions and territories.The competition helps students share ideas, showcase cutting-edge research and inventions, and compete for more than $4 million in awards.
The Indian contingent to Intel ISEF 2011 consisted of Akansha Verma and Abhishek Khanna (New Delhi), Raghavendra Ramachanderan (Chennai), Manosij Ghosh Dastidar (Kolkata), Hetal Vaishnav and Ankur Vaishnav (Rajkot), Diksha Gupta (New Delhi), Pramoda N.V. and Bhargava C.S. (Puttur) who came from different parts of the country.
Raghavendra Ramachanderan, a student of St John`s International Residential School in Chennai, has won US $ 5,000 for his research in drug synthesis at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), touted as the world`s largest high school science research competition. Ramachanderan`s groundbreaking work could help in developing drugs to fight cancer, bacteria and fungus.
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