Saswati Rath, a student of Plus Two Science stream of the Neelkantha Nagar-based Saraswati Sishu Mandir here, after successfully displaying her skills in preparing many science projects had a dream of going to Japan to showcase her talent.
Her dream came true on Tuesday after she was selected for the Japan Asia Youth Exchange Programme, which will be held from June 2 to 26. While at the all India level 32 students have been selected for the programme, among them four are from Odisha.
Besides, Saswati, Dhenkanal’s Satya Sundar Parida, Archita Acharya, and Jagatsinghpur’s Abhilash Tripathy are the others who have been selected.
According to Saswati, under the Central Government’s Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research(INSPIRE)programme held in New Delhi in 2014 her project “ Echo friendly Pollution Control” was highly praised and she was selected for the SAKURA programme.
But to participate in the programme the participant should be of 16 years.
But as she was 14 years then she could not participate.
After she become 16 and studying in Class IX in Central School, Kandhamal she again presented the same project and got selected again.
Saswati in her project to be presented in Tokyo aims to prevent the pollution produced by huge heaps of polythene and how to produce shoe polish, crude oil and grease and other items by using new scientific technology from the same. Notably, Saswati’s father Santosh Kumar Rath is a science teacher.