Making India Proud at Global Science Fair

ALBUQUERQUE (NEW MEXICO U.S.): When 17-year-old Rishin Behl was fidgeting with his laser beam apparatus a few months ago, he would not have quite known how far the beam was going to take him. On Friday, however, he saw his little experiment graduate into a $1,000 prize-winning project at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2007.

He was among the prize winners in the Earth and Planetary Sciences category of the ISEF, which concluded here on Friday.

"The laser beam reflected on my window glass when an aircraft was passing by. I suddenly noticed the glass shaking. That gave me an idea," says the chirpy teenager. His project, "A novel design for magnetic levitating seismograph," is a product of his spirit of enquiry that questioned the inability of seismographers to detect the tsunami.

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Making India Proud at Global Science Fair