India, Nov. 3 -- Three schoolchildren from Pune's low-income neighbourhoods have won places on a science internship that takes them to ISRO. Yaqub Bangi and Yassira Memon, of K.C. Thackeray Vidya Niketan, and Shubham Pariyar of Epiphany High School cleared both rounds of SPOT, the annual science aptitude test held by the Vikram Sarabhai Science Foundation, and were selected for the Sarabhai Younglings Internship 2026. The learning journey covers ISRO, ISTRAC, HAL, the India Meteorological Department and IIM Bangalore.

All three are Scholars at Panaah Communities, a Pune nonprofit that began work in 2021. Panaah runs learning centres inside the city's high-need neighbourhoods and stays with children when learning gaps first show, from Gra...