Manzar Abbas, a student at the Pak Turk International Schools & Colleges Karachi Clifton Boy’s Campus, has achieved a Grand Winner Award and Gold Medal in the 7th International Young Inventors Project Olympiad.
The competition was held from April 25th-27th in Tbilisi, Georgia, and included over 120 projects from 28 countries. Abbas, who is in class FSc-I, developed a project entitled “A New Approach to Purify Seawater.”
Since 1999, Abbas’ school has operated under the auspices of Pak Turk International Cag Educational Foundation (Pak Turk ICEF), an international Turkish non-governmental organisation. Pak Turk ICEF aims to promote education as a tool of social development, and caters to over 6,500 Pakistani students in 20 schools throughout the country. The foundation was awarded the prestigious Sitara-e-Eisaar in 2006 for their various humanitarian efforts, including relief work in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake and a program for internally displaced people in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.