Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Eric | Ferrante | Tanay | Tandon | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Topographical Computer Vision Algorithms for rapid, low-cost Hematological diagnostics and Parasite detection through Random Forests learning and van Leeuwenhoek-type Imaging (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 |
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Utkarsh | Tandon | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Parkinsonian Syndrome Stage Classification through Signal-Processing driven Machine Learning Ensemble Algorithms: A low-cost Wearable Device utilizing novel Feature Engineering for Diagnosing and Monitoring Tremor based Diseases (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Daniel | Stavis | Saumya | Baswant | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | A Safer Reorganization to a Landfill (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Swethasree | Bhattaram | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | A Safer Reorganization to a Landfill (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ria Swetha | Gopu | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Best Combination of Insulating Materials (In Terms of Heat Retention) (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Anushka Sachin | Narvekar | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Best Combination of Insulating Materials (In Terms of Heat Retention) (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Charles | Williams | Atul | Raghunathan | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Harvesting the Excess Thermal Energy Produced by Light Emitting Diodes. (Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Homestead High School | John | Shelby | Amrita | Venkatraman | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Eyes On The Road: Building an Android Application to Test Alertness Before Drivers Take the Wheel (Engineering) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lynbrook High School | Jason | Lee | Rupsa Bhatt | Acharya | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The effect of Carica papaya leaf extract on the lifespan of C. elegans with fatal germ line tumors. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 |
| Nikhil | Ajjarapu | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Censoring Illicit Content using Machine Learning (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Mythili | Bhethanabotla | 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Smart Gadget: An effective wearable mechanism to better assist and guide the visually impaired (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nithin | Buduma | 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | Comparative Analysis of Transcriptional Networks during Mouse and Human Red Blood Cell Development (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, Kindle, MedImmune | |||||||
| Jeffrey | Chang | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The California Vowel Shift: Social Motivations for Language Change (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Pransu | Dash | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Enhancing public safety by using the internet and Wide-Area Control Systems to remotely disable firearms (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rohan | Dhesikan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | An Automated Battery Replacement System for Quadcopters (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Durga | Ganesh | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Identification of NUSAP1 as a novel therapeutic target for aggressive prostate cancer: evaluating cell invasion, migration, proliferation, and morphology in androgen sensitive and insensitive cell lines (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | |||||||
| Matthew M. | Hase-Liu | 2nd Award, Physics Category | A Novel Study on the Improvement of Electronic Transport Characteristics in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (Physics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $35 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Jasper | Huang | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | The Effect of Soil Coarseness and Soil Moisture Content on the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Sequestered by Basalt Sand with Red Harvester Ants as a Biotic Agent (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Nachiket Nitin | Ingle | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Parts of the Brain that Filters Out Distractions (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Nikunj | Khetan | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Energy Efficient Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes Using Waste-Derived Carbon Dioxide as a Precursor Gas (Physics) | 12 | |||
| Shadaj | Laddad | 3rd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Applying Concurrency and Distributed Systems to Sequence Alignment Algorithms (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Pranav Varasri | Lalgudi | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Novel Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Modelling of Periplasmic Proteins and Peptidoglycan Interactions of Escherichia coli (RRI Biological Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Edward | Lee | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Angela R | Liu | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Creating a wearable electronic device that monitors heart health (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Isha | Mehrotra | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The effect of natural compounds Curcumin and Nicotinamide on alpha-Synuclein accumulation in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Parkinson's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Rohan | Mehrotra | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The effect of natural compounds Curcumin and Nicotinamide on alpha-Synuclein accumulation in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Parkinson's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Cassandra Elaine | Overney | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Genotoxicity Investigation by Measuring the Effect of Metal Concentrations on Garlic Root Bioassays by the Observations of Chromosomal Aberrations (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Design and synthesis of a novel paper based biosensor platform for health diagnostics. (RRI Physical Sciences) | 12 | |||
| $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Sciences Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 1st Place: $110, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Advait Avinash | Patil | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | CryoSubtilis: A synthetic biological approach to engineering cold resistance in Bacillus subtilis through expression of CspC and ZeAFP proteins (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Gauri | Patil | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Effect of Single Nucleotide Variations in the DIXDC1 Gene on Wnt-beta - Catenin Signaling Pathway Activation (RRI Biological Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Jessica | Peng | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Creating a wearable electronic device that monitors heart health (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Amulya Bhupathiraju | Raju | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | Controlling Obstructive Sleep Apnea with the Usage of Mucoadhesive Strips (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Varun Bhupathiraju | Raju | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | An alternative to compression garments to control abnormal growth of limbs. (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $50 cash award and certificate to student in 9th grade, The Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Sherry | Sarkar | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | The Applications of Coding Theory for the Analysis of Genetic Data (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Aubhro | Sengupta | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Heat Powered Hearing Aids (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $50 cash award and certificate to student in 9th grade, The Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Nisarg | Shah | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Method for the Bioremediation of Pyrene through Endoyphyte-Plant Symbiosis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Shailja | Somani | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of a Bacterial Protein on Plant Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Andrew | Tang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Charles | Tang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Varun J | Venkatesh | 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | A Study on Using Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectroscopy to Determine Protein Structure in the Coagulation Cascade (RRI Biological Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Marilyn Mengyao | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Diagnosing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's-specific Biomarkers in Blood Sample (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Susan Lining | Zhou | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effects of Sodium Hydroxide and Potassium Chloride on Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Monta Vista High School | Pamela | Chow | Julia | Cho | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Microfabricated hydrogel-based vascular networks for the metastasis study of circulating tumor cells (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 |
| Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Ajay | Jain | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Distributed Robotic Pursuit and Evasion: Navigation and State Estimation (RRI Physical Sciences) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Anurag | Singh | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Kaushik | Tandon | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Renee | Fallon | Maalini Radha | Bommakanti | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Ankita | Chatterjee | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Low-Cost Novel Construction of a Stacked E. coli-Based Fuel Cell System (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jonathan F | Fung | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Physical Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Surface Specific Rationally Self-Assembling Au-Fe Oxide Nanoparticles: A Potential Multi-Modal Imaging Agent Platform for Early Tumor Diagnosis (RRI Physical Sciences) | 11 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Sciences Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $70, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Zunera | Ghalib | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effects of Curcumin On Rotenone-induced Drosophila Models of Parkinson's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Joshua | John | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | What is the effect of dollar bill value on the amount of germs found present on the bill? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Gayathri A | Kalla | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Anish G | Krishnan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Non-invasive Low-Cost Electronic Nose Breath Analyzer To Detect the Deadliest Cancer. (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Christina C | Lau | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Correlation Between the Time Middle and High School Students Spend on Chores and Their Grade Point Average scores (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Shriya Reddy | Perati | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Melatonin on Antibiotic Resistance (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Yana | Petri | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Modeling CMIP5 Projected Climate Change Impacts on Global Terrestrial Mammalian Species-Range Shifts Under RCP Emission Scenarios (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Manav Jitesh | Shah | Honorable Mention, Ecology Category | The Effect of Freshwater Diatoms and Orthosilicate during Nutrient Over-Fertilization in Harmful Algal Blooms to control the Growth Rate of Dinoflagellate Peridinium (Ecology) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Priscilla | Siow | Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists | E.Coli Filtration using Plant Xylem from the Pseudotsuga menziesii (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Pranav | Srinivas | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Integrative Network Analysis of Epigenetic and Genomic Data for Colorectal Cancer (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Rishi Jatin | Upadhyay | 2nd Award, Ecology Category | Effect of environmental pollutants on Salmon chromatophores and their use as a biosensor (Ecology) | 9 | |||
| Gina | Yang | 1st Award, Zoology Category | Effects of Agricultural Adjuvant on the Olfactory Associative Learning and Memory of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) (Zoology) | 9 | |||
| Debbie | Frazier | Nikhil | Cheerla | GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology | Linking Alternative Splicing to Human Brain Development and Synaptic Plasticity (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |
| Advith | Gopinath | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Using Machine Learning to Analyze Gait to Assist in the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Andrew | Goldenkranz | Anika Asawa | Ramachandran | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | The Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Levels in Freshwater Using Chlorella vulgaris and Calcium Oxide (Ecology) | 9 | |
| book for student and another for her science teacher, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi | |||||||
| David | Greenstein | Ganesh | Valliappan | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Smart Home Safety System (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Kathleen | McCarty | Nathan | Wong | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The correlation between different music aspects and electrodermal activity (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Ted | Shinta | Anirudh | Balasubramaniam | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Nilay Sanjay | Sawant | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. (Engineering) | 10 | |||