Which Indian-origin personality has won 2016 Google Science Fair?
Which Indian-origin personality has won 2016 Google Science Fair?
[A]Advay Ramesh
[B]Pulak Kulshrestha
[C]Kiara Nirghin
[D]Pramath Jain
Kiara Nirghin
Kiara Nirghin (16), an Indian-origin South African teen, has won a $50,000 scholarship at the 2016 Google Science Fair held in United States for her work using orange peel to develop a cheaper super-absorbent material to help retain water in soil. She is grade 11 student at private school St Martin’s. The Google Science Fair is a programme for any budding scientists between the ages of 13 to 18, who are invited to solve world’s biggest challenges using science and technology.
Originally written on
October 5, 2016
and last modified on
December 20, 2023.