Summary:
The 10th grade students of Lakshmi School have won the Young Innovators’ Program, a national-level contest conducted by IIT Kharagpur. The team’s prize winning model was a handy motor-operated machine with a tank and sensor to tackle oil spills in oceans. Once the sensor detects oil, the motors get switched on and the tank fills up with a mixture of oil and water. “As water is denser than oil, it settles at the bottom of the tank and can be siphoned off through an outlet. “We further narrowed down to removing oil in the shallow waters along the coast..