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07-20-2016, 06:18 PM
Google rewards Indian teenager for service that helps local fishermen navigate
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A 14-year-old Indian student has won Google's Community Impact Award for a GPS-powered app that aims at keeping local fishermen safe and enhancing their productivity. The award, which got him $10,000, focuses on projects that make a practical difference to communities by addressing challenges surrounding the environment, health and resources.
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A class 10 student in the southern city of Chennai, Advay Ramesh is among the 20 finalists shortlisted to compete for the $50,000 scholarship at the Google Science Fair 2016.*
Ramesh eventually hopes to develop his app into a hand-held device, which he calls the FishErmen Lifeline Terminal (FELT). While it has been tested with Google Maps, it will eventually use the Standard Position System (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/irnss-1g-india-gps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), an open navigation service provided by the country's Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), for greater accuracy at sea. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/google-science-fair-fishermen-india/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A 14-year-old Indian student has won Google's Community Impact Award for a GPS-powered app that aims at keeping local fishermen safe and enhancing their productivity. The award, which got him $10,000, focuses on projects that make a practical difference to communities by addressing challenges surrounding the environment, health and resources.
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A class 10 student in the southern city of Chennai, Advay Ramesh is among the 20 finalists shortlisted to compete for the $50,000 scholarship at the Google Science Fair 2016.*
Ramesh eventually hopes to develop his app into a hand-held device, which he calls the FishErmen Lifeline Terminal (FELT). While it has been tested with Google Maps, it will eventually use the Standard Position System (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/irnss-1g-india-gps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), an open navigation service provided by the country's Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), for greater accuracy at sea. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/google-science-fair-fishermen-india/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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