Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

Project Awards 2011

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Dan	Burns	Thomas Lee	Chu	1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category	The Extraction of Oil from Water Using Ferromagnetic Fluids (Environmental Sciences)	11
			Adam Joseph	Gramling	1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category	The Extraction of Oil from Water Using Ferromagnetic Fluids (Environmental Sciences)	11
			Keltan Guillaume	Lawler	1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category	The Extraction of Oil from Water Using Ferromagnetic Fluids (Environmental Sciences)	11
Saratoga High School	Robert	Kucer	Arnav	Dugar	2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	Fluroescent Reporter Assay for Monitoring Cellular Dynamics (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	11
			David Ken-Ming	Eng	Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Role of Septins in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida albicans by Host Cells (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	11
					1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category
			Jacqueline Lisa	Gu	2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	Controlled Transformation of RNA Secondary Structure (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	10
			David Andrew	Zarrin	1st Award, Engineering Category	Never Lost Again: Designing a Novel Precision Indoor Navigation System (Engineering)	10
					$50 check and certificate, Wireless Communications Alliance
					1st Place Award - $250 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society
					2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army
					GR 09-10: HP PW460t Digital Camera, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
					GR 10-12 First place $150 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award
					Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps
					IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
					Student membership to AIAA, certificate, and AIAA mug, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award
			Alissa Yuan	Zhang	$100 Cash Award, certificate, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award	Comparative Study of Graphene Hydrogel and Graphite in Microbial Fuel Cells for Electricity Generation (Chemistry)	11
					1st place, $50 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award
					GR 10-12: First Place, $100, Book, T-shirt,Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)
					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, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
					Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps