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Today is Holi, an ancient Hindu festival marking the start of Spring that dates back to the 4th century. People across India celebrate by throwing water and colored powder on each other. If you want to celebrate too, make sure you explain the holiday before you douse someone!
When robotics engineer Milind Raj saw a puppy in trouble on his morning walk, he flew in to help. The puppy was stuck in a drain in Uttar Pradesh India, that would have been too dangerous for a human to enter. Milind got his drone, attached a robotic arm, and piloted a puppy rescue!
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1,726 people came together to form the largest human recycling logo ever in Chennai India. They wore green shirts and assembled themselves into the familiar triangle of arrows, promoting the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” motto. In Mumbai, the Plastindia Foundation recycled 200,000 plastic bottles into cloth to make the world’s largest t-shirt! India is BIG on recycling!
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2 years ago, lawyer Afroz Shah decided to clean up a polluted beach in India. Versova Beach was becoming a landfill, shin-deep in trash. Eventually thousands of volunteers pitched in to turn it back into a pristine sandy beach. Now, for the first time in decades, Olive Ridley sea turtles have hatched on the beach! Amazing!
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Diu, a district in India with 56,000 people, is powered by 100% solar energy, generating more electricity than the district even needs! California’s solar farms have also been producing record amounts of energy. They sometimes send electricity to Arizona and other states so their power lines aren’t overloaded. Sunshine power is amazing!
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Today is Holi, an ancient Hindu festival marking the start of Spring that dates back to the 4th century. People across India celebrate by throwing water and colored powder on each other. If you want to celebrate too, make sure you explain the holiday before you douse someone!
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A 12 year-old Indian girl broke a world record by singing songs in the most languages. During a 6 hour concert in Dubai, which was the longest live concert ever performed by a child, Suchetha Satish sang songs in 102 different languages! It would probably take most people 6 hours to think of 102 languages!
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Do you love ketchup? Would you drink a whole bottle with a straw? Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya finished a bottle of ketchup in 25 seconds, setting a world record. The man from Mumbai India has also set speed records for peeling and eating grapefruit and oranges, and eating grapes. It’ll be hard to ketchup to him!
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A robotics company called Robochamps and 1200 students in northern India just broke a world record! They were part of the world’s biggest robotics class. Students in Panchkula made robots with the help of Kautilya Pandit, the child prodigy known as Google boy. Too bad they didn’t get to take the robots home!
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When MIT student Anirudh Sharma went home to India, he noticed his clothes accumulating soot from air pollution. He started the Graviky Labs where scientists invented a plasma-filled device to clean the air. The KAALINK catches particulate matter from tailpipes and factory chimneys. They turn the particles into ink for artists to use!
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