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A Planet In Milky Way Galaxy To Be Named After This Bengaluru Teen Sahithi Pingali

Darpan News Desk IANS, 08 Jun, 2017 03:08 PM
  • A Planet In Milky Way Galaxy To Be Named After This Bengaluru Teen Sahithi Pingali

The efforts of one Bengaluru student, Sahithi Pingali, have been recognised in a rather universal way - the 12th standard student of Inventure Academy has had a planet in the Milky Way named after her!

 

Sahithi had developed an app to collect data on the frothy, polluted lakes of Bengaluru through crowd-sourcing. She entered the app in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) and was one of the 2,000 finalists from around the world.

 

She came within the top 3 per cent at the ISEF competition - and for that achievement, the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to name a planet after her. MIT has the right to choose the name of minor planets.

 

Sahithi is right now not in Bengaluru, but is doing an internship at the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Michigan. And water pollution is still on her mind. She hopes to learn more about detecting and dealing with water pollution.

 

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