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	<title>Mentoring program for school science fair projects</title>
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	<description>Mentoring science fair projects for Pune school students by NCL scientists</description>
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		<title>Google Science Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the IRIS Science fairs, Google has an &#8216;Global Science Fair&#8217; that is worth considering. Google&#8217;s competition is open to students in the age group 13-18 years. It also has a very good checklist of ingredients that make up a good science project for any such project. These are copied below from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentor.excitingscience.org/2011/07/13/google-science-fair/</link>
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		<title>Pune student wins award at Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS) 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, &#8220;Misconception on the Phenomenon of Dissolving.&#8221; Sarthak&#8217;s project was an experimental investigation and demonstrated non-ideal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentor.excitingscience.org/2010/11/26/pune-student-wins-award-at-initiative-for-research-and-innovation-in-science-iris-2010/</link>
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		<title>CSIR awards for inventions by students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CSIR has announced awards for school children that come up with patentable inventions. Key criteria are that the invention should be novel, non-obvious, and useful. Proof of concept through a model, prototype or experimental data is also required. We can also give you feedback on ideas you may have as to whether in our opinion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentor.excitingscience.org/2010/06/16/csir-awards-for-inventions-by-students/</link>
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		<title>Project ideas and plan for Sunday 30 May 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A list of ideas for potential projects in various areas has been put up at HERE. Please take a look, and think about how you would prepare a detailed plan for one or two that interest you. On Sunday, approach one of us after the talk on Sunday by Arindam, and we will discuss how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentor.excitingscience.org/2010/05/27/project-ideas-and-plan-for-sunday-30-may-2010/</link>
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		<title>Talk on 02 May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the third mentoring session, after Magesh&#8217;s talk on chemistry in food, Anuja Bagul, a former National-level awardee (for her project on nanotechnology) who is now a third-year engineering student, spoke of her experience. She encouraged the students to approach scientists and discuss their ideas. She had talked to over 100 scientists and professionals! An [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentor.excitingscience.org/2010/05/06/may-session/</link>
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		<title>First mentoring session &#8211; 28 Feb 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first information session was held following the popular talk on climate change by Guru. The general structure of the project, and the differences between data-collation projects and ones with unknown outcomes were discussed. The second type (a project where the answer is unknown) is the type relevant to such science fairs. The presentation is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mentor.excitingscience.org/2010/03/23/hello-world/</link>
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