BANGALORE: Harshavardhini B.S., ninth standard student at Jnanodaya School here, was on Tuesday presented the third prize in the junior category of the DuPont India Challenge-2005 Science Paper Contest.

The prize was presented by Minister for Science and Technology Ramchandra Gowda.

She received a certificate of achievement, a trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 6,000 for her science paper, "Cancer gene therapy — killing the killer", under the topic, genetics.

Appreciation

Shobha Manjunath, her Science teacher, received a certificate of appreciation from K.V. Subbarao, Country Head, Pioneer India, a DuPont subsidiary and seed company.

The DuPont India Challenge-2005 Science Paper Contest received more than 3,000 entries.

All students whose entries were selected for jury evaluation received certificates of participation. As many as 300 of contestants were from 30 schools in Bangalore.

Certificates

Ten students were awarded certificates of distinction as their papers were among the top 15 entries in each of the five topics of Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Genetics, Cloning and Nutraceuticals.

Each Science paper went through a two-tier evaluation process — a technical evaluation that qualified entries based on their adherence to the rules of DuPont India Challenge, and a rigorous three-stage evaluation by an eminent panel of external jury, drawn from research institutes. DuPont India Challenge was launched in 2002 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of DuPont.

It is an annual programme in which students from schools in the country are invited to submit papers on emerging areas.

Presenting the DuPont prize, Mr. Ramachandra Gowda urged students to concentrate on Mathematics and languages to enable them to branch out to any technology.

They should read newspapers and mathematical journals, he felt.

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