Google Science Fair 2016: Indian teenager ‘Advay Ramesh’ awarded Google Community Impact Award- Asia
Are you searching for information on Google Science Fair 2016 award winner? If so, you are in the right page to get the right information from this blog. Yes, there were 20 shortlisted finalists to compete for the $50,000 scholarship from Google.
Google India today (19th July 2016) announced the winner of the Google Community Impact Award, a theme based award part of Google Science Fair 2016. You may have doubt on what and who are the eligible for Google Science award? How to participate in Google Science Fair? Or How to get its invitation etc. You may read this article to know more detail about it. Inviting over thousands of projects from over 107 countries,14 year old Advay Ramesh from Chennai, India got the prestigious award from Asia.
The Community Impact Award honors a project that makes a practical difference in the innovator’s community by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge.
The first prize of amount of $10000 bagged by Advay, yes, he presented his project on creating ‘FishErmen Lifeline Terminal (FELT)’ to enhance the fishermen safety and productivity using Global Positioning Services (GPS) that won him that amount in funding and a year-long mentorship from Scientific American to further help develop his winning project. If you are willing to participate on such contest then go ahead on the link given bleow. Advay who is currently studying in Class X in National Public School, Chennai has also been chosen among the Top 20 finalists shortlisted to compete for a Grand Prize worth $50,000 in scholarship. Full details on Advay’s project is available on Google Science Fair website here.
“Young minds are inventive, thoughtful, and determined to try things that other people think are “impossible.” It’s imperative for us to support and encourage these young people to explore and challenge the world around them through scientific discovery. Through the Google Science Fair, we want to encourage and support the next generation of scientists and engineers” said a Google spokesperson.
Further sharing his excitement on being announced the winner, Advay said “Winning the Google Community Impact Award means a lot to me, it would help me learn more and develop my idea further”.
Out of the thousands of projects across the globe, Google selected Top 100 ideas by the judges, including 14 projects from students across India. Check out the full list of the 100 Google Science Fair Regional Finalists here. These 100 Regional Finalists are all in the running to become one of the 16 Global Finalists, who will join Google in Mountain View on September 27 for their sixth annual AwardsCelebration.
To find out who the 16 Global Finalists will be, check out the Google Science Fair site on August 11.
About Google Science Fair Awards:
The Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic and Scientific American and started in January 2011. The competition is open to 13–18 year old students around the globe, who formulate a hypothesis, perform an experiment, and present their results.
Google India today (19th July 2016) announced the winner of the Google Community Impact Award, a theme based award part of Google Science Fair 2016. You may have doubt on what and who are the eligible for Google Science award? How to participate in Google Science Fair? Or How to get its invitation etc. You may read this article to know more detail about it. Inviting over thousands of projects from over 107 countries,14 year old Advay Ramesh from Chennai, India got the prestigious award from Asia.
The Community Impact Award honors a project that makes a practical difference in the innovator’s community by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge.
The first prize of amount of $10000 bagged by Advay, yes, he presented his project on creating ‘FishErmen Lifeline Terminal (FELT)’ to enhance the fishermen safety and productivity using Global Positioning Services (GPS) that won him that amount in funding and a year-long mentorship from Scientific American to further help develop his winning project. If you are willing to participate on such contest then go ahead on the link given bleow. Advay who is currently studying in Class X in National Public School, Chennai has also been chosen among the Top 20 finalists shortlisted to compete for a Grand Prize worth $50,000 in scholarship. Full details on Advay’s project is available on Google Science Fair website here.
“Young minds are inventive, thoughtful, and determined to try things that other people think are “impossible.” It’s imperative for us to support and encourage these young people to explore and challenge the world around them through scientific discovery. Through the Google Science Fair, we want to encourage and support the next generation of scientists and engineers” said a Google spokesperson.
Further sharing his excitement on being announced the winner, Advay said “Winning the Google Community Impact Award means a lot to me, it would help me learn more and develop my idea further”.
Out of the thousands of projects across the globe, Google selected Top 100 ideas by the judges, including 14 projects from students across India. Check out the full list of the 100 Google Science Fair Regional Finalists here. These 100 Regional Finalists are all in the running to become one of the 16 Global Finalists, who will join Google in Mountain View on September 27 for their sixth annual AwardsCelebration.
To find out who the 16 Global Finalists will be, check out the Google Science Fair site on August 11.
About Google Science Fair Awards:
The Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic and Scientific American and started in January 2011. The competition is open to 13–18 year old students around the globe, who formulate a hypothesis, perform an experiment, and present their results.
