<p>Why not, her mother Padmatilakam, an electrical engineer and assistant professor at Annamalai University has taken leave to be with her daughter Harine who is an IIT aspirant studying Intermediate here at Narayana college.<br /><br />The project “Power Line Conditioning Using Series Voltage Regulator” to eliminate voltage fluctuations through multi-level inverters, took the 16-year-old student to the final of the online competition. There were more than 7,500 entries from students from 90 countries. The 15 finalists comprise five each from three age categories 13-14 years, 15-16 years and 17-18 years. A finalist winner will be selected from each of the age categories, 13-14, 15-16, and 17-18. One of the finalist winners will be named the Grand Prize Winner.<br /><br />Harine has just completed her Intermediate first year and was among the five finalists in the 15-16 age group. Dora Chen, Naomi Shah, Gavin Ovsack and Skanda Koppula all from USA were the other finalists is her age group. Harine and her mother will be flying to Google headquarters in California, where one of the three finalist winners will be declared as a Grand Prize Winner by a panel of scientists on July 11.<br /><br />“I am excited about the finals, where I will have to do a presentation followed by a questions and answer session in front of a panel of judges that include Nobel laureates,” Harine said. <br /><br />However Harine wants to have a quick glimpse of Los Vegas and Los Angeles before leaving for India. “We have requested Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford to allow us for a campus visit and they agreed,” Harine who plans to do her Masters degree in MIT said.<br /><br />Harine’s mother who shares a room with her only daughter in the college hostel is happy for daughter. “My husband Ravichandran is a contractor and lives in Chennai. I have to be with her so that she achieves her goals. It’s not a sacrifice but responsibility of every parent,” Padmatilakam said. Harine has been a voracious reader right from school days. <br /></p>
<p>Why not, her mother Padmatilakam, an electrical engineer and assistant professor at Annamalai University has taken leave to be with her daughter Harine who is an IIT aspirant studying Intermediate here at Narayana college.<br /><br />The project “Power Line Conditioning Using Series Voltage Regulator” to eliminate voltage fluctuations through multi-level inverters, took the 16-year-old student to the final of the online competition. There were more than 7,500 entries from students from 90 countries. The 15 finalists comprise five each from three age categories 13-14 years, 15-16 years and 17-18 years. A finalist winner will be selected from each of the age categories, 13-14, 15-16, and 17-18. One of the finalist winners will be named the Grand Prize Winner.<br /><br />Harine has just completed her Intermediate first year and was among the five finalists in the 15-16 age group. Dora Chen, Naomi Shah, Gavin Ovsack and Skanda Koppula all from USA were the other finalists is her age group. Harine and her mother will be flying to Google headquarters in California, where one of the three finalist winners will be declared as a Grand Prize Winner by a panel of scientists on July 11.<br /><br />“I am excited about the finals, where I will have to do a presentation followed by a questions and answer session in front of a panel of judges that include Nobel laureates,” Harine said. <br /><br />However Harine wants to have a quick glimpse of Los Vegas and Los Angeles before leaving for India. “We have requested Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford to allow us for a campus visit and they agreed,” Harine who plans to do her Masters degree in MIT said.<br /><br />Harine’s mother who shares a room with her only daughter in the college hostel is happy for daughter. “My husband Ravichandran is a contractor and lives in Chennai. I have to be with her so that she achieves her goals. It’s not a sacrifice but responsibility of every parent,” Padmatilakam said. Harine has been a voracious reader right from school days. <br /></p>
