Karachi: Pakistan is the land of intelligent and creative young people as it was proved by two Pakistani teenagers to get fourth place and cash $500 award at the Grand Awards Ceremony of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on Friday in Pittsburgh.
These genius students– Mahnoor Hassan, Shiza Gulab and Bushra Shahed– were the selected people among 1,549 students across the world. They students of Peshawar’s Institute of Computer and Management Sciences created a titled: Energy Square for Cattle, to grab fourth prize in the Animal Sciences Category.
This is not the first time the Pakistan’s students were recognized and awarded at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Pakistani students have continued to participate in the globally renowned contest and declared winners many times since 2006.
In 2011, a dynamic duo of young scientists Ambreen Bibi and Mehwish Ghafoor from Federal Government College for Women, G-10/4 Islamabad, exhibited their research project titled “Degradation of Environmental Pollutants using Nano Composites” under Environmental Sciences Category and won accolades for Pakistan by securing 3rd position, they were also awarded cash prize of US $1,000.
The project focused on one of the major crisis prevailing globally; the need for clean drinking water, the students gathered water samples and conducted various experiments using nano particles of cerium sulphate and manganese nitrate to reduce pollutant count. The results were amazing; they successfully cut down the pollutant count in sewage water and made it drinkable.
In 2008, three bright students from Aga Khan Higher Secondary School Karachi and the 12th grader, Sara Moez Ali, Zahra Suleman Tejani and Arif Pyarali won the first position cash prize US$1,000 by the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
They had presented their project titled “Novel Drug Therapy of Silver Nano Particles to cure M.R.S.A infections” having conducted rigorous experiments to develop a cure for infectious diseases without affecting the surrounding cells.
In 2007, Kulsum Bilal was awarded the Second Prize in Environmental Management ($1,500). She was a smart and hard working student at Govt. Kinnaird High School in Lahore, Pakistan. Despite being just 13 years of age, she has made her family and country proud by winning at the Intel ISEF 2007.
Her project entitled ‘Feasibility and Recycling of Chicken Feathers into Paper Products’ was an exciting exercise for Kulsum, who recycled chicken feathers (which are available in abundance in a country like Pakistan) into paper, and then determined whether products made from this paper are resilient enough to be used to make products.
In 2006, Hamza Sheikh won at the Intel ISEF in the first time of Pakistan’s history.
Hamza Sheikh won the second prize of US$1,500 in his category, Chemistry, and has the honour of having one of the approximately 500 asteroids named after him. The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry also awarded him a Special Award, which is a one-year student membership to the Society.
Hamza Sheikh is a student of grade 9 at the Headstart School in Islamabad. His project was entitled “Is Pea Flour an Effective Insecticide against the Stored Grain Pests?”
via, thenewstribe
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