Bengaluru: 4 girl researchers to be felicitated during celebration of National Science Day on February 26

Bengaluru: Four girl researchers will be felicitated by the state government during the celebration of National Science Day on Thursday.

The young girls were part of Anveshana, the high school research programme of Bengaluru-based Prayoga Institute of Education Research. All the four girls hail from rural and tribal communities. Their research paper was published in Sustainable Chemistry One World (Elsevier).

The girls - Kirat Kaur, Yamini, Reshma J V, and Lakshmi G - are from rural and tribal backgrounds who have aimed for something beyond their modest beginnings.

Of these four, some are first generation learners, pursuing ambitions of this magnitude for the very first time in their families. They were a part of Anveshana
2025.

These students, who were then high schoolers, had applied for the summer course through their schools and were selected by a panel of inhouse researchers at Prayoga and all set to get felicitated by the department of Science and Technology.

The result of the five-month research programme (two months on-site and three months off-site) was their research article, a complex piece of chemistry, titled: “Green synthesis of saponin-capped copper (II) oxide (CuO) nanoparticles and their efficacy in photocatalytic dye degradation,” which was published in Sustainable Chemistry One World (Elsevier), a highly reputed Scopus-indexed international science
journal.