Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Altos High School	Karen	Davis	Wesley	Luh	Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary	Optimizing Machine Learning Based Ocean Oil Spill Detection using Genetic Algorithm Techniques (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Justin Vincent	Yu	Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary	Optimizing Machine Learning Based Ocean Oil Spill Detection using Genetic Algorithm Techniques (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Darren	Dressen	Alana Marthe Phan	Beyer	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Assessing the accuracy of WordtoVec Assisted Translations of Uncommon Languages (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Nicolas Arthur	Chan	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Evaluating and Developing Algorithms for Computer Music Composition (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Jordan Davis	Gorospe	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Green tea catechins inhibitory effects on tumorigenisis (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Anisha	Palasamudrum	1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley	Testing Vitamin E Isomers to downregulate VEGF Receptors and inhibit angiogenesis. (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Varvara Alexeevna	Shvareva	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Upregulating the levels of the microtubule severing protein spastin in neuroblastomas to model axonal regeneration (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
Mountain View High School	Ly	Nguyen	Marc Gong	Bacvanski	Third Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award	Ok City: Unifying Mobile, Cloud, and AI Techniques in a Crowdsourcing Application for Smart Cities (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award