Young achiever from Mihinthale Central returns with Intel ISEF awards
View(s):Dinesh Kapuge (19) from Mihinthale Central College, won the first place award in the engineering: electrical and mechanical category and the second place award from the Ashtavadhani Vidwan Ambati Subbaraya Chetty (AVASC) Foundation at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a programme of Society for Science & the Public, held in Washington, USA.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa felicitates Sri Lankan team on their return after attending Intel ISEF. Kapila is on the far left.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, provides an annual forum for more than 1,500 high school students from over 70 countries, regions, and territories to showcase their independent research as they compete for more than $3 million annually. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition for students in grades 9–12.
Kapuge was awarded $3,000 for the first award and an additional $500 U.S. savings bond; for his unique project titled ‘ridge cutting machine’. The AVASC recognises projects that display outstanding creativity, ingenuity, and have the potential to alleviate the human condition or mark a substantive advancement in the scientific field.
Kapuge, who was the runner up at the Sri Lanka Science and Engineering Fair (SLSEF), was part of the Sri Lankan contingent at the Intel ISEF which included Pasindu Wijesena from Ananda College, Colombo, and Subhash Gamage and Rakhitha Malewana from Nalanda College, Colombo.
Every year winners of the Sri Lanka Science and Engineering Fair (SLSEF), a partnership between Intel, the Ministry of Education, the National Science Foundation, and IESL, are sent by Intel to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair which honours some of the world’s most promising, rising student entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists. Finalists are selected annually from hundreds of affiliated fairs.
Their projects are then evaluated onsite by more than 1,200 judges from nearly every scientific discipline, each with a Ph.D. or the equivalent of six years of related professional experience in one of the scientific disciplines.
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