Dr Ravindranath Shanbhogue, a professor from Udupi, started Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF) to help various sections of society, including senior citizens who have been rendered homeless after being turned away or cheated by their kith and kin.
“Since many of such classroom projects never get this sort of exposure, I decided to enter the competition. Even if it would get some visibility, I knew I would get some collaborators to work with and that was basically my main intent.”
Samay Godika, a class 10 student of Bengaluru’s National Public School, will be representing the country on a global front through the Breakthrough Junior Challenge with his illuminating video on the self-cleansing mechanism of Autophagy.