Media Release
Udupi, Jan 10: Two students of Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar won the grand award from IRIS (Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science) jointly sponsored by Intel South India, The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, and The Department of Science and Technology of Government of India.
Chaitanya and Geeve are Class XII students who achieved this remarkable feat and made the entire school proud.
From among 3 lac participants who had submitted projects online, 100 were shortlisted. Geeve and Chaitanya were among them and the next level was in Pune where they presented their project named SAMIS which is a Smart Phone Aided Multispectral Imaging System. Their project is one of the 20 selected for the Grand Award. These awardees from team India will represent the nation at the international level.
These two students are now entitled to attend the Intel Science and Engineering fair to be held in Los Angeles, California in May 2017.
Incidentally Geeve had earlier won the Rural IT National Quiz title in 2015.
Principal of the School Mathew C Ninan congratulated the duo on their splendid achievement and wished them well for the next level.