Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

Project Awards 2015

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Cathy	Messenger	Michela	Gori	3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering	The Transformation of Casein into Biodegradable Plastic (Engineering)	12
					3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
					Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award
			Noah Paul	Gundotra	Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)	Comprehensive Prediction of Protein Structures Using Foldit (Bioinformatics)	10
			Ilian Hodges	Herzi	2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	The Effects of Various Chemoattractants on Chemotaxis-Movement Behavior of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis in a Circulatory Modeled System (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	12
			Shomik	Jain	2nd Award, Chemistry Category	Is Your Sunscreen Safe? A study of sunscreens with photocatalytic particles, their ability to produce hydroxyl radicals in pools, and the effect of these particles on chlorination. (Chemistry)	11
			Leron	Perez	2nd Award, Engineering Category	Cost-Effective Prosthetics: Utilization of Artificial Muscles in a 3D Printed Arm (Engineering)	12
			Sarah Elizabeth	Shaw	2nd Award, Ecology Category	The Effect of Mycorrhizae on Reducing Drought Stress on Lolium perenne (Ecology)	10
			Connor Lawton	Tinsley	2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers	Storm Drain Filter For Removal of Common Suburban Pollutants Found in Rainwater Run-off (Engineering)	10
					Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize
			Chinmay Manish	Vaidya	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	An In Vitro Study of The Mitigation of Atherosclerosis via Magnetic Hyperthermia (Engineering)	12
					IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
			Olivia Lynn	Woodford-Berry	High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize	A Novel Approach to Improving Drought Tolerance: The Effects of Biochar on Crop Yield (Botany)	12
					1st Award, Botany Category
			Elina B.	Yon	1st Award, Ecology Category	Effects of Pistia stratiotes Phytoremediation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus, and Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Enriched Pistia Stratiotes as Organic Mulch Fertilizer on growth of Lactua sativa (Ecology)	10
			Anne	Zepecki	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Girls Learn Code - A Lesson in Java for Teenage Girls (Computers / Mathematics)	11
Saratoga High School	Jill	McCrystal	Stephanie	Huang	First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)	Breaking Antibiotic Resistant Biofilms with Natural Herbs (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	11
			Indraneel	Tambe	2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category	Inverse Problem Approach to Designing Better Optical Waveguides (Computers / Mathematics)	12
			Michelle Q	Xu	First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)	Breaking Antibiotic Resistant Biofilms with Natural Herbs (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	10
			Kristine Alexandra	Zhang	2nd Award, RRI Physical Sciences Category	A New Molecular Model for Congo Red-Amyloid-Beta Interaction: Implications for Diagnosis and Inhibition of Brain Plaque Formation in Alzheimer's Disease (RRI Physical Sciences)	11