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Sia Godika: Sia Godika, a 17-year-old girl from Bengaluru has won a prize of around Rs 3,32,00,000 in a contest organized by the tech giant. Sia, a resident of Bengaluru, has won the Junior Challenge 2023 International Science Video Competition. This competition was launched by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, Russian tech giant Yuri Milner and his wife Julia and American entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki.
This competition was created with the aim of inspiring creative thinking about fundamental concepts in life sciences, physics and mathematics. It is also called 'Oscar of Science'. Siya Godika is a Class 12 student who won the Junior Challenge by making a video titled 'Yamanaka Factors'. His video was inspired by the work of Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka, demonstrating pluripotent stem cell technology that can reportedly 'turn back time' for cells.
Siya's science teacher Arka Maulik will get a share of Rs 41 lakh from the entire prize, and her school, Neev Academy, will get a lab worth Rs 83 lakh designed by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The statement said that this (technology highlighted in the video) has a huge impact on the treatment of age-related and degenerative diseases.
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