Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2010
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Amy | Andrzejwski | Eric Victor | Jang | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | 4D Telomere Dynamics: Modeling, Properties and Quantitative Evaluation (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 |
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| 1st Place : Bronze Medallion, Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate Folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Lynbrook High School | Amanda | Alonzo | Sindhu | Addepalli | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Effect of Various Household Contaminants on Various Flowering Plant Cells (Environmental Sciences) | 9 |
| Priyanka | Athavale | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Observing Stress Hormesis and Its' Effect On the Cognitive Development and Life Span of C.elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Sudarshan (Sudi) | Bhat | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Observing Stress Hormesis and Its' Effect On the Cognitive Development and Life Span of C.elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Jennifer Shuen | Chen | $100 American Express gift check, plaque, certificate and 6-week summer internship, MedImmune | Functional Consequences of Two Human Cardiac Troponin T Mutations Associated With Cardiomyopathy (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| First Place: $100 Cash, Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| $100 for Best Technical Paper in Biological Sciences, Certificate, Dr. Paul X Callahan Technical Paper Awards | |||||||
| 1st Award, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Tony | Ho | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using an Ontology-Driven Semantically Annotated Microarray Repository with Thermal Graident Focusing Mass Spectronomy for Early Disease Detection (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Check of $50 - Best project in Computer Science, Infotech Outreach Award | |||||||
| Eric | Hu | Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | The Effects or the Usage of Laplacian Filters to Coordinate Edges in Images (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Eesha | Khare | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Effect of Various Household Contaminants on Various Flowering Plant Cells (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| David C. | Liu | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Continual Adaptation of Acoustic Models for Domain-Specific Speech Recognition (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| $100 for Best Technical Paper in Physical Sciences, Certificate, Dr. Paul X Callahan Technical Paper Awards | |||||||
| 1st Award, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Andrew | Ma | 1st Award, Botany Category | Integration of Multiple Hormones and Light in Regulating Plant Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana by Two Antagonistic Transcription Factors (Botany) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Akshay J | Maheshwari | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | BioBrick Studio: A Keystone for Efficient Streamlined Developent and Communication of Standard Biological Parts (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| Ritik | Malhotra | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using an Ontology-Driven Semantically Annotated Microarray Repository with Thermal Graident Focusing Mass Spectronomy for Early Disease Detection (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Check of $50 - Best project in Computer Science, Infotech Outreach Award | |||||||
| Tejas | Navaratna | 2nd Place Award - $200, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | Bactericidal Efficacy of Silver Nanoparticle Dispersions Prepared through Fungal Mediated and Chemical Reduction Methods (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship | |||||||
| Raman | Nelakanti | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Using Dark and Light Phases with Sulfur Deprivation to Optimize Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash plus framed cert and subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Sandeep Venkatsai | Peddada | Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Using Knot Theory to Identify the Knot Type of Circular DNA Molecules (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Ashwin | Raman | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Magnetically Coupled Oscillatory Resonant Induction System with Restricted Gradually-Evanescent Near-Field Patterns for Non-Radiative Mid-Range Efficient Wireless Electricity Transfer (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Nicole | DellaSantina | Julian | Huang | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | Effect of Wound-induced Resistance in Plants on Plant Systemic Acquired Resistance. (Botany) | 11 | |
| Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Charles | Mosher | Noorsher | Ahmed | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Anti-Rolling Mechanism for Automobiles (Engineering) | 9 | |
| 3rd Place Award - $100 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Product Safety Engineering Society | |||||||
| George | Peck | Akshay | Nathan | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Super-Encryption Standard for Large Data Using Chaotic Elementary Cellular Automata (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and instructions for Pewter Medallion (to come), Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Joanne | Quan | Keegan Victor | Mendonca | 2nd place, $30 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | Exploring Efficient Fertilizers that do not Cause Environmental Degradation (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Vishwaesh | Rajiv | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | A Piezoelectric, Faraday-based Approach to Harvesting Energy Through the Movement of Walking (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Roy | Rocklin | Vincent | Li | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | The Effect of Different Oxygen Scavenger With Different Concentration On the Production of Reduced Graphite Layers (Chemistry) | 12 | |
| Gr 9-12, 1st Place Award - $100 Cash, Magazine Subscrtiption, Certicate; ISEF Cert & medallion mailed from ASM Educational Foundation,, ASM International, A Society for Materials | |||||||
| Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship | |||||||
| Aditya | Majumdar | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | The Dangerous Threshold of Polyethylene and Plastic Based Products in an Ecosystem (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Kunal | Rathi | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Developing a Portable MRI (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Merit , lapel pin, and chance to win $1000, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Andrew | Wong | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Developing a Portable MRI (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Merit , lapel pin, and chance to win $1000, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Jared | Wong | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | The Dangerous Threshold of Polyethylene and Plastic Based Products in an Ecosystem (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| David | Taylor | Mihir Dilip | Angal | 1st Award, Physics Category | Effectiveness of Pipes Laid in Asphalt Roads as a Mean of Gathering Heat From the Sun (Physics) | 11 | |
| Emily | Cheng | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Novel and Efficient Method of Hydrogen Production : Optimizing the Microbial Electrolysis Cell and Microbial Fuel Cell Coupled System (Environmental Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Aakriti | Jain | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Novel and Efficient Method of Hydrogen Production : Optimizing the Microbial Electrolysis Cell and Microbial Fuel Cell Coupled System (Environmental Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Alex | Tanner | 1st Award, Physics Category | Effectiveness of Pipes Laid in Asphalt Roads as a Mean of Gathering Heat From the Sun (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Yi Wei | Zheng | 1st Award, Physics Category | Effectiveness of Pipes Laid in Asphalt Roads as a Mean of Gathering Heat From the Sun (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Monta Vista High School | Pamela | Chow | Angela | Zhang | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Identification of a Novel Therapeutic Target and Its Pathway for Tobacco Promotion of Lung Cancer (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 |
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, signed by Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Renee | Fallon | Aarthi | Ravi | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Traffic Light Dilemma Warning Using Fuzzy Object Recognition Algorithm (Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Place Award - $250 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert, Product Safety Engineering Society | |||||||
| 3rd Place HS Award - $25 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Barnes&Noble gift cards:Gold medal, Certificate,SWE Brochure-What in the world will they think of next?, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Shruthi | Ravi | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Traffic Light Dilemma Warning Using Fuzzy Object Recognition Algorithm (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $250 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert, Product Safety Engineering Society | |||||||
| 3rd Place HS Award - $25 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Barnes&Noble gift cards:Gold medal, Certificate,SWE Brochure-What in the world will they think of next?, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Kavita | Gupta | Evaline Shin-Tin | Tsai | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Hydrocarbons (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| First Place HS- $150 Cash plus cert, RAE Systems | |||||||
| Gr 9-12, 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash, Magazine subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials | |||||||
| Bruce | Kawanami | Kevin | Adinata | 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering | ORCS (One-Button Remote Control System) (Engineering) | 12 | |
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tushar | Alladi | 1st Award, Engineering Category | T.I.M. - Touchless Interface Mouse (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Anindya | Basu | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Transitional Shelters in Post Disaster Situations (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place HS Award - $50 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Tarun | Chaudhry | Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, medallion, Certificate of Achievement, and congratulatory letter, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Enhancing Communication - Novel Cell Phone Capabilities for Persons with Disabilities (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Saurabh | Davala | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Stirling Silver: A Renewable Energy Re-Capture System Add On for an Automotive Application (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Robert Takumi | Frederick | 3rd Place Award - $25 Cash plus framed cert, Product Safety Engineering Society | Vigilo Angelus: Wireless Accelerometer Based Vital Sign Tracker for Sleeping Infants (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Siddharth Manoj | Gandhi | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | Soccer Footwear (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Reubin | George | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Focusing Sound Using Non-Linear Acoustics (Physics) | 12 | |||
| 1st Place : Bronze Medallion, Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate Folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Aamoy | Gupta | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Stirling Silver: A Renewable Energy Re-Capture System Add On for an Automotive Application (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Dewal | Gupta | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Transitional Shelters in Post Disaster Situations (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place HS Award - $50 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Jessica Wenshan | Hsu | 1st place student- High School - $100 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | Photoluminescence of Europium-Catalyzed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship | |||||||
| 1st Award, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Andrew | Hui | 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Robo Chair: The Autonomous Personal Transporter (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Kevin | Jiang | 2nd Award, Technical Paper | Psp2,6ST Sialyltransferase for the Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Cancer Vaccines and Related Antigens (Technical Paper) | 11 | |||
| Jason | Jung | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | Soccer Footwear (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Parag | Kikla | 1st Award, Engineering Category | T.I.M. - Touchless Interface Mouse (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Badri Narayanan | Krishnan | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Stirling Silver: A Renewable Energy Re-Capture System Add On for an Automotive Application (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Arun Raj | Kuchibhotla | 1st Award, Engineering Category | T.I.M. - Touchless Interface Mouse (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Akhil | Raju | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Digital Electric Guitar: Utilizing Analog to Digital Conversions and a Signal Processing System to Increase Tonal Range (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Madula | Ramabathiran | 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering | ORCS (One-Button Remote Control System) (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Keshav | Saharia | Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | Traffic Optimization System (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| Check of $50 - Best project in Computer Science, Infotech Outreach Award | |||||||
| Vyas | Savanur | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Digital Electric Guitar: Utilizing Analog to Digital Conversions and a Signal Processing System to Increase Tonal Range (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Jeet | Shah | 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Robo Chair: The Autonomous Personal Transporter (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sameer | Sondhi | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | Soccer Footwear (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Tom | Zimmerman | Matthew Daniel | Zimmerman | 1st place, $50 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | The Effects of Fipronil on Copepod Mobility (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |