The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
(Intel ISEF) is the world's largest pre-college celebration
of science. Held annually in May, the Intel ISEF brings
together over 1,400 students from more than 40 nations
to compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships,
scientific field trips and the grand prize: a $50,000
college scholarship. Science Service founded the ISEF
in 1950 and is very proud to have Intel as the title
sponsor of this prestigious, international competition.
Intel ISEF is the largest international pre-college
science fair where the world's best young scientists
jostle for over $3 million in scholarships and prize
money.
The Intel ISEF 2005 took place at the Phoenix Civic
Plaza Convention Center located in the heart of downtown
Phoenix, Arizona
NRI 26 students are: 23 from America, two
from Canada and one from Scotland have won prizes
in various categories including, astronomy, physics,
mathematics and physiology.
Eight Indian school kids, six of them from
rural and small town backgrounds, have emerged finalists
from an original worldwide pool of several million
participants. They are winners already, after having
competed with over 65,000 students at 550 regional,
state-level, national and international Intel ISEF-affiliated
science fairs to win the right to compete at Intel
ISEF.
- Awards of USD 1,000: Mihir Tandon and Riddhiman
Yadav , both students of Modern School Vasant
Vihar in Delhi, have won this scholarship awards
for designing an improvised artificial limb for
above-knee amputees
.
- Awards of USD $500: Mallika Dhillon Desai
and Suvrata Desai of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,
Goa, received AVASC Foundation award. They were
placed second for their group project on traditional
spices as biopesticides
Anitha Ramesh from small village in Karnataka
packed her bags to fly to the US and the whole village
came out with garlands to see off. Anitha found Parthenium
Hysterophorous- called the obnoxious weed, growing
in her father's farm and discovered that it made a
very effective biopesticide. Her farmer father and
uneducated mother never understood her research project
but they were proud that she did something unquie
