Lalita Prasida
Sripada Srisai, a class 9th student from Damanjodi in Koraput district in
Odisha won the ‘Community Impact Award’ at the prestigious Google
Science Fair at California on Tuesday.
The student of
DPS Damanjodi developed a low-cost bio-absorbent based water purifier
which uses waste corn cobs as key ingredient. She has won the award in
13-15 years age group. The winners of the fifth annual Google Science
Fair were announced live from Google Headquarters in Mountain View,
California. As part of this award, Lalita received 10,000 US dollars as
prize money. Lalita will be further supported for one year by the
organisation to build on her project.
Students and staff of the school at Damanjodi celebrated the news of Lalita’s achievement. Speaking toThe Hindu,
headmaster of DPS Damanjodi, Trinath Prasad Padhi was all praises for
achievement of Lalita, who he claimed was also proficient in other
extra-curricular activities like song and dance. “We have planned up a
major function on the campus to honour Lalita, when she returns back”,
he said.
Mr. Padhi said
the water purifier developed by Lalita if produced in large scale would
be a great help for the poor living in rural areas of south Odisha, who
still do not have any access to pure water.
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