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Four Indian students awarded at Intel ISEF Houston, May 13: Four Indian students have won awards at the prestigious Intel International Science and Engineering Fair being held in Phoenix, Arizona for innovation and invention in addressing basic human needs like health, water and shelter. Mihir Tandon and Riddhiman Yadav, both students of Modern School Vasant Vihar in Delhi, have won scholarship awards of USD 1,000 for designing an improvised artificial limb for above-knee amputees. The Delhi students won the national collegiate inventors and innovators alliance/Lemelson Foundation prize that is awarded for creativity, technological innovation and commercial promise. Suvrata Desai, 16 and Mallika Dhillon, 16, of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Goa, have won the second award of dollar 500 US savings bond for their Project "traditional spices as biopesticides". These awards have been presented by the 'Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty (AVASC)' foundation for projects that display outstanding creativity, ingenuity and have the potential to alleviate the human condition or mark a substantive advance in the scientific field. The Indian students reached the stage after competing with over 65,000 students at 550 regional, state-level national and international science fairs affiliated to the Intel ISEF. -------------------- Jai Hind! Carlos
