Shadab Rasool Buriro is a student from Khairpur who won the GENIUS (Global Environmental Issues-US) Olympiad silver medal held in 2011 as well as a $250,000 scholarship from the State University of New York on his research regarding the industrial pollution. At the beginning his project (Toxic Water Purification by Tea) was initially sent to the Pak-Turk School’s head office at Islamabad and then after the project was forwarded to the US.