In a gigantic feat and a first from Odisha, Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai, a 9th grader at the DPS, Damanjodi in Koraput, Odisha won the ‘Community Impact Award’ at the prestigious Google Science Fair 2015 in California, hosted by Google in partnership with the Scientific American that sponsored the Community Impact award, LEGO Education, National Geographic and Virgin Galactic. She has won the award in 13-15 years age group.
She won in the 13-15 years age group, and received 10,000 USD as the prize money. Additionally, she will also be supported by the organization for a year to build upon her project.
Her basic idea was to purify water using the least utilised part of the maize plant – that is the corn cob. A very important agricultural waste, corn cob is a suitable adsorbent because of its high mechanical strength, rigidly and porosity.
It is a cheap and eco-friendly way of purifying water. And it will also open up a new market for corn cobs that are usually discarded as bio-waste.
Rourkela Shines
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