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Thai students win science awards in US
BANGKOK, May 16 (TNA) - Thai students have won two major prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2011), held in the United States, making Thailand the second country in Asia, and even the first in Southeast Asia, to have received the honourable awards over the past 62 years.
The three Thai students of Surat Pittaya School from Thailand's southern resort Surat Thani Province have won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award for their work on a gelatin found in fish scales, which should be used in modern day fish packaging and should be an invention to have positive and long-term effects for the environment.
Besides, their work has won a gold medal and a special prize in the Environmental Management category at a competition of the International Sustainable World Energy Engineering Environment Project (I-SWEEP) as well. The three Thai students have received a cash prize of 50,000 US dollars in the gelatin work and another 8,000 US dollars in the Environmental Management category.
Two other teams of Thai students have also won the awards. The first team from a school in Thailand's northeastern Si Sa Ket Province has won a silver medal for a project designed to protect crop plantation with Arduino from the I-SWEEP; while another team from a school in the country's southern Phetchaburi Province has clinched the fourth prize from the I-SEF for their work on utilising mucilage derived from lemon basil seeds as a coating substance for fruit preservation.
The Intel ISEF, a programme of Society for Science and the Public, is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition held this year in Los Angeles from May 8-13. The global science competition for students between grades 9-12 provides an annual forum for more than 1,500 high school students from 65 countries, regions and territories to present their independent research projects. (TNA)
The three Thai students of Surat Pittaya School from Thailand's southern resort Surat Thani Province have won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award for their work on a gelatin found in fish scales, which should be used in modern day fish packaging and should be an invention to have positive and long-term effects for the environment.
Besides, their work has won a gold medal and a special prize in the Environmental Management category at a competition of the International Sustainable World Energy Engineering Environment Project (I-SWEEP) as well. The three Thai students have received a cash prize of 50,000 US dollars in the gelatin work and another 8,000 US dollars in the Environmental Management category.
Two other teams of Thai students have also won the awards. The first team from a school in Thailand's northeastern Si Sa Ket Province has won a silver medal for a project designed to protect crop plantation with Arduino from the I-SWEEP; while another team from a school in the country's southern Phetchaburi Province has clinched the fourth prize from the I-SEF for their work on utilising mucilage derived from lemon basil seeds as a coating substance for fruit preservation.
The Intel ISEF, a programme of Society for Science and the Public, is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition held this year in Los Angeles from May 8-13. The global science competition for students between grades 9-12 provides an annual forum for more than 1,500 high school students from 65 countries, regions and territories to present their independent research projects. (TNA)
