Sarthak won Outstanding Category award in IRIS 2010 held at Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai from 18 -21st November 2010.

Sarthak Chandra, a 12th standard student from Vikhe Patil, won an Outstanding Project award in Chemistry for his research project entitled, “Misconception on the Phenomenon of Dissolving.” Sarthak’s project was an experimental investigation and demonstrated non-ideal behaviour during dissolution of ionic salts in water, and was carried out at Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education , Mumbai and National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.