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Final judging for the first India Intel Student Research Contest (ISRC) took place May 4, 2004 in Bangalore, India. Winners received both cash prizes and PDAs. Deepak Panwar and Deepak Sharma, electrical engineering students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, took top honors in the contest. They captured the top prize for their research on organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which could provide low-power, low-cost, fast electronic displays for signs, televisions, video cameras, computers, and other applications.
"It's is a true reward for our work," says Panwar. "We are electrical engineering students and we picked a project in physical sciences. The field was new and not well researched and our technical advisor was a great guide." The senior staff scientist who heads Intel India's Innovation and Research Program served as Panwar and Sharma's technical guide for the project. "We were asked some tough questions and answered them confidently, but we didn't think we would come first," says Sharma.
Judges for the contest included Intel fellows and other Intel executives. They were impressed by the high quality of professional work done by the students. "The topics were high level and the students had in-depth understanding of the research work. They articulated very well and without hesitation," said Gene Meieran, Intel Senior Fellow.
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