{"id":17211,"date":"2017-06-08T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=17211"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:38:54","slug":"bengaluru-girl-sahithi-pingali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/bengaluru-girl-sahithi-pingali\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old Bengaluru Girl Gets Planet Named after Her for Insightful Study on Pollution of Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Differences come up between Bengaluru and New Delhi when these two Indian cities are compared to each other. Despite differences, they have one thing in common, and that is talent.<\/strong> Recently two New Delhi students won the Grand NASA Prize 2017<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for their underwater human settlement project. Bengaluru is not lagging behind. A 16-year-old Bengaluru schoolgirl joined the elite club of extraordinary young Indians<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for having got a planet named after her.<\/p>\n Sahithi Pingali, a class 12 student of Inventure Academy, is the Bengaluru city girl whose name inspired the name of a planet in the Milky Way galaxy. One of the rarest distinctions in the world, this honor came her way as a reward for her extensive, insightful study on the pollution of lakes across Bengaluru City.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sahithi Pingali participated in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), one of the most prestigious pre-college-level science competitions in the world<\/strong>, and became one of the 2,000 finalists for her research paper, \u201cAn Innovative Crowdsourcing Approach to Monitoring Freshwater Bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n