11 Indian Kids Make It To Intel's ISEF 2012

Nikhil Ravishankar
Nikhil Ravishankar and Apurva Joshi: These two students from St. Joseph's High School, Mysore, Karnataka have worked on a project based on Behavioral Science called the "Teen Twits: Effects Of Social Networking Sites, Virtual Worlds, Text Messaging On Behavioral And Language Skills Of Teenagers". Prolonged use of Social networking sites, Virtual Worlds & Text Messaging among teenagers affects their social behaviour and language skills. With the growing presence of Indian teenagers on Social Networking Sites & virtual worlds, this research aims to study its effects on the social life & language skills. Users of social networking sites & Text Messaging tend to shorten the spellings of words and in order to save time. This has considerable long term impact on their overall language & communication skills. 9.Saral Baweja and Nishi Paliwal: These students from the Maharaja Agarsain Public School, Ashok Vihar, New Delhi Have worked on a Botony based Project called the "Production Of Bio-Fertilizer, Bio-Fungicide And Bio-Soil Enhancer By Action Of Bacillus subtilis On Bones." Due to great food insecurity and stress on land there is a need of plant growth promoting eco-friendly product. Therefore by the phosphate solubilizing action of Bacillus subtilis on bones a complete product of plant growth is made in this project. By the quantitative analysis of solubilized phosphorous from bone meal (source of bone) done by Olsen P test, it was observed that B. subtilis solublized most of the phosphorous, and thus it was chosen.