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Bangalore student is YouTube Space Lab Asia-Pacific winner
Tuesday March 27, 2012 10:07:29 AM,
Arun Kumar, IANS
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Washington: India's Sachin S. Kukke is the Asia-Pacific region winner and one of the
six global winners of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for young
people to design experiments that could be performed in outer
space.
The winners of the contest by YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation
with Space Adventures, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA
(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) were announced at a ceremony
at the Newseum here Friday.
Kukke's experiment explores transfer of heat in ferrofluid - a
special liquid that gets magnetized when subjected to a magnetic
field. The study can benefit development of advanced cooling and
heat transfer systems.
A student of mechanical engineering at the BMS College for
Engineering in Bangalore, Kukke called on Indian Ambassador to the
US Nirupama Rao Friday and shared his experience of
conceptualising and carrying out innovative scientific
experiments, an Indian Embassy release said.
Warmly congratulating Kukke on his achievement, Rao said that in
India, a country engaged in rapid economic development, "students
like Sachin symbolise the hopes and the potential of a dynamic,
resurgent India and it's young population".
She encouraged Kukke to pursue his goals and interests in the
specialised area of aerospace engineering and wished him the very
best for the years ahead.
At the meeting, Kukke was accompanied by Lee Hunter, head of brand
marketing for YouTube, and Claudio Lilienfeld, senior policy
manager for Asia Pacific at Google.
Nearly 40 percent of the total number of entries for the contest
came from India alone, an indicator of the skills and level of
interest in the field of exploration of outer space among the
youth in India.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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