Ludhiana: Srishti Asthana, a girl from Chandigarh has been selected as a finalist of top 15 finalists for Google Science Fair of 2013. This 15 year old girl is a student of Science Stream from Millenium School in Mohali. Srishti will have to show her project at the Google headquarters in the US, which could be potential green method for treating waste water laced with detergents.
Srishti have got the idea of her project when she went on a school field trip last year for a textile industry in Ludhiana. She had noticed the terrible state of industry’s waste disposal causing water pollution.
Srishti said while talking with an English daily, “As a part of a field trip, I went to Ludhiana last year and was taken aback to see how the dyes from the textile industries got drained out in the water bodies, thus polluting it. On querying from an owner on how they treated the water before draining out, he counter questioned me on whether do we treat the detergent water before draining that out. The question triggered an idea in me of doing the same.” “I created a method where the solar light and nano particles of zinc oxide are used to treat detergent water. It is purely a green technique and environment-friendly,” she added.
The Google Science Fair is an online competition. It was first started in 2011 and is open to students in the age groups of 13-18 to widen science projects and share their findings.
Srishti will be flown to Google’s Mountain View headquarters in the US on September 23 to present her project for the final round, which will be judged by an international panel of esteemed scientists. The grand prize will get a ten-day trip to the Galapagos Islands, $50,000 in scholarships, and more.
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