Tamil Nadu govt school girl wins online competition, will visit NASA research centre soon

A Class 11 student of Tamil Nadu's Government School K Jayalakshmi is all set to fly to United States next year in May to spend a week at National Aeronautics and Administration (NASA). She will also get a chance to interact with NASA astronauts. Jayalakshmi is among winners of National Science Contest 2019, an online science aptitude and general kwledge test conducted earlier this year by US-based Go4Guru, online tutoring, and educational tour services company.

Jayalakshmi's struggle

Jayalakshmi is one of selected few who will be getting a full tour of NASA. winners will also be taken to nearby tourist attractions like Disney World for five days. Jayalakshmi has also won numerous scholarships such as National Means Cum-Merit Scholarship. However, trip to NASA poses a challenge. Travel expenses are likely to be around Rs 1.69 lakh.

Jayalakshmi is a science student at government high school in Adanakottai. She is also a Tamil medium student and had taken English coaching classes for a month to prepare for competition.  Furr being sole breadwinner for her family Jayalakshmi has sought help from Collector to meet her travel expenses. Her family consists of a younger bror and her mentally challenged mor to look after. To meet her daily needs Jayalakshmi takes tuition classes for class 8 and 9 students and also sells cashews. 

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About competition

re are thousands of student participants at  National Science Contest 2019, organised by Go4Guru, an educational travel services organisation based out of US, earlier this year. Go4Guru has been organising educational tours since 2011 for Indian students. So far organisation has taken about 4,000 Indian students to organisations in US, Europe, and Japan.

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