Newcastle’s Dia Singh honoured at Eskom Expo International Science Fair
Dia took the Meiring Naude Award for ‘most inspiring project’, which included a R1 000 cash prize and a laptop from Babcock. Read more here:
St Dominics Newcastle’s Dia Singh was among the winners at the recent Eskom Expo International Science Fair (ISF) in Boksburg.
According to national media, KwaZulu-Natal produced 39 different winners out of the 270 participating local and international researchers.
Dia took the Meiring Naude Award for ‘most inspiring project’, which included a R1 000 cash prize and a laptop from Babcock.
Dia (16) said she her project was inspired by a documentary about a plastic straw stuck in a turtle’s nostril. She looked into ways to rid the world of plastic pollution in so doing, discovered that not all plastics can be recycled.
She says that burning plastic is hazardous and inefficient. Dia came up with a way to make plastic burn itself and put the resulting emissions to good use.
She received five awards in total: the Eskom Expo Gold Medal, the Eskom Expo Best Engineering Project, the Meiring Naude Award, the TIA Innovation Bootcamp, and a laptop. Dia wishes to work in biomedical engineering.
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