I Muhammad Ilyas, the student of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed College DHA Karachi. One the participant named Harris bin Ashraf is my closest friend. I have shared his comments and others also.
Nine college students are all set to signify Pakistan at an Annual global science competition, after they appeared as champions at a national science fair.
Intel Pakistan declared the names of the champions at a ceremony at the Sir Syed Memorial Complex on Wed. The champions will play a part in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF)-2o14 in Los Angeles in May.
Syeda Minahil from the Forward Girls College Peshawar, Sidra Riaz from the Katchi Memon Academy Karachi and Jalal Waseem from the Aga Khan Higher Secondary School Karachi won for individual projects relevant to medical sciences, environment sciences and electronics respectively.
They were joined up with by a number of three students each from the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed College DHA Karachi and the Punjab Danish School (Girls) Hasilpur, who won for projects on environment sciences and energy respectively.
Harris bin Ashraf, Babar Shah and Muhammad Tahir, all pre-engineering students from Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed College DHA Karachi, established the other team that won the science fair.
The national science fair was adjudicated by a board of four judges including Dr Azhar Hassan, Chaudhry Jameel Ahmed, Eng. Ghaffar and Dr Ghazala Ashfaq.
The judges analyzed over 75 projects that had won in provincial and district science fairs to achieve the nationwide competitors in Islamabad.
Harris of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed College DHA Karachi, who had also won the science fair in 2013 for his individual project on plastic bag decomposition and represented Pakistan at the ISEF 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona.
“We used destructive distillation to convert plastic garbage into slightly combustible oil that resembles crude oil and can be further refined.”
He also said:-
“My previous participation helped give me confidence and I’ll be able to guide his group to do better at ISEF 2014.”
Minahil who proved helpful on a treat for heaps said the technological innovation is a mixture of two herbs that is high in fiber content and stops obstruction to prevent haemorrhoids.
She said :-
“Arriving at the final solution took over eight months of laboratory work, testing and chemical analyses.”
Sana Batool, one of the three girls from Danish School, which won the fair in the team category, said that they had proved generating power from a wind turbine by improving theoretical power efficiency equations.
Science and Technology Assistant Kamran Ali Qureshi share his views with us :-
According to him Pakistan’s future is in the hands of hardworking and dedicated youngsters
“I request the scientists and academicians gathered here to give me a working plan to popularise the work of Pakistani scientists through broadcast and social media.”
Intel Pakistan Nation Administrator Naveed Siraj said for the past 13 years, Apple has been trying its best to enhance knowledge in Pakistan through educational projects.
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