Jalandhar girl wins APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE award

Jalandhar: A Jalandhar girl Jaspreet Kaur has won the prestigious Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Award for her idea on “Colour Coded Thermometer”. She is one of the 31 students to have won the award, out of 28,000 entries received by the National Innovation of India, which gives the award every year to students with original ideas. Jaspreet, a class 10 student of Police DAV Public School, explained her idea saying, “In my idea, one can find temperature using colours in thermometer. If a person has low body temperature then it shows blue light; if it is on the higher side then it shows red light and if the body temperature is normal then it shows green light. This thermometer will be helpful for those people who do not know how to check temperature on a thermometer.”