KODAGU GAL BAGS ISS SCIENCE AWARD;

Madikeri August 12, 2007

Kavadichanda Nruthya Madappa a 12th standard student at National Public School bagged the coveted Len Basser Scientific Leadership Award. This award is most coveted of the two awards instituted at the ISS. It is the award given to the best student amongst the 140 scholars from various countries who took part in the International Science School 2007 held at Sydney University between August 1 and 14.

She was one of the four students selected to represent India at the International Science School at Sydney.The selection, was done by the Raman Research Institute Bangalore on the basis of a written competition among the KVPY national scholarship holders across all parts of India .This was the first representation of India in this event. The event is hosted for 140 best science students from 10 countries across the world, every two years., The Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS) is the flagship of the Science Foundation for Physics, with a forty-five-year history and a reputation as the best program of its kind in the world.

ISS Scholars attended lectures by leading scientists from Australia and overseas, on topics ranging from alternative energy sources to extinction ecology, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from the sleuthing properties of nuclear physics to the mysterious dark matter and energy that coprises 90% of the Universe. While at the ISS, Nruthya was one of the two selected students selected from amongst the scholars at the ISS to be on the Australian radio triple J on 05.07.07, with the well known ignoble prize winner scientist Dr Karl Kruzenski.This is a regular science 60 minute science show anchored by him. They were fielding the questions pertaining to science shot at him by listeners from all over Australia.

The students hailed from all states and territories of Australia, and from eight other countries: China, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the UK and the USA other than India.

Nruthya is the proud daughter of Dr.Rajeshwari and Dr.Madappa, practicing in Mysore.