Being part of team India in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is an achievement most students could only dream of. But for two students from a government school in rural Kozhikode to be part of it is nothing short of a lifetime achievement.
Neeraj N. and Adithyan U.S., plus one students of N.N. Kakkad Memorial Government Higher Secondary School, Avitanallur, Kozhikode, are packing their bags for ISEF 2024 that will be held from May 11 to 17 in Los Angeles, United States, with their project titled ‘A comparative study of indigenous fishes in paddy fields for pest control and mosquito control in Avitanallur village’.
It started with Neeraj’s hobby of collecting and rearing fishes at home. “I had the feeling that fishes are somehow related to paddy. It was Sreeraj C.R., a scientist associated with the Zoological Survey of India who encouraged us to study their behavioural patterns,” Neeraj told The Hindu.
