Washington: Indian student Sachin Kukke has won YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for the Asia Pacific region and is one of the six global winners of the competition.
In a meeting with Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao, Sachin shared his experience of conceptualizing and carrying out innovative scientific experiments.
At the meeting, Sachin, a student of mechanical engineering at the BMS College for Engineering in Bangalore, was accompanied by Lee Hunter, head of brand marketing for YouTube, and Claudio Lilienfeld, senior policy manager for Asia Pacific at Google.
Congratulating Sachin on his highly commendable achievement, Rao said that in India - a country engaged in rapid economic development - "students like Sachin symbolize the hopes and the potential of a dynamic, resurgent India and it's young population".
She encouraged Sachin to pursue his goals and interests in the specialized area of aerospace engineering and wished him the very best for the years ahead.
Sachin's experiment explores transfer of heat in ferro fluid - a special liquid that gets magnetized when subjected to a magnetic field.
The study can benefit development of advanced cooling and heat transfer systems.