Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2012
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Katherine | Moser | Anne Yang | Zeng | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluating Compounds That Inhibit Tau Missorting as Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 |
| Josh | Paley | Amy A | Shen | Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | How Safe Is Your Password? A New Approach to Measuring Password Strength (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Rajeev | Virmani | Helen | Jiang | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Utilities Integrating Clinical and Molecular Findings to Manage Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Neonatal Care (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |
| Jeffrey | Ling | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Utilities Integrating Clinical and Molecular Findings to Manage Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Neonatal Care (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Elana | Zizmor | Neel | Guha | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Auditory Cues, Differentiation Capabilities, Short Term Memories and Personal Bias on the Phenomena of Change Blindness: A Study in Visual Perception (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |
| Shilpa | Yarlagadda | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Auditory Cues, Differentiation Capabilities, Short Term Memories and Personal Bias on the Phenomena of Change Blindness: A Study in Visual Perception (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |||
| Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Erica | Goldsworthy | Trevor Joseph | Filseth | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Project - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | An Improvement on the VAWT Wind Turbine (Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Palo Alto High School | Michelle | O'Shea | Matthew | Li | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | An Analysis of High School Student Facebook Usage (Behavioral / Social) | 9 |
| Wilson | Wang | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | An Analysis of High School Student Facebook Usage (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Kathy | Weiss | Christine | Chang | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | A Novel Approach Applying Image Processing Techniques on Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Joseph | Chang | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | A Novel Approach Applying Image Processing Techniques on Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Fred | Berghout | Peter Kenneth | Brownlee | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Observing Cosmic Rays (Physics) | 8 |
| Jennifer | Carleton | Ariel Nuan-Ying | Pan | Certificate, NOAA Medallion, letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Is the Water All the Same Along the San Francisco Bay Shoreline? (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |
| Hayley | Dupuy | Simcha Rost | Bradski | Honorable Mention Award-Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Papercrete Insulation (Chemistry) | 6 | |
| Casey Larson | Cheng | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Stomp Rocket Angles (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Robert Brendan | Mora | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Stomp Rocket Angles (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Catherine | Novick | Honorable Mention Award-Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Papercrete Insulation (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Matthew Alexander | Wytmar | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | What Makes a Good Nerf Dart (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Ann | Lorey | Seena Eskandari | Huang | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Does the Type of Sports Drink Affect Amount of Electrolytes? (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Russel Phillip | Tsai | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Efficiency of Lighting Technologies (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Linda | Luo | Maya Danielle | Miklos | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Soiling Our Earth? (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |
| Nandeeka Divya | Nayak | 1st Award, Physics Category | How Does the Amount of Sugar in Different Liquids Affect its Index of Refraction? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| 1st place student- Middle School - $100 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Anita Phinney | Silver | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | The Big Fizz (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Kevin | Lynch | Rory | Harriss | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Comparing Height to Load Ratios of Three Propellants: Commercial vs. Home Brewed (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Jeremy Elan | Trilling | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Comparing Height to Load Ratios of Three Propellants: Commercial vs. Home Brewed (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Randy | Wu | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Comparison of Paper Towels for Absorbancy (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Greg | Rice | Tiffany | Yang | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | C the Difference (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| Terman Middle School | Robin | Ames | Andrew | Shen | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Distracted Drivers (Behavioral / Social) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | |||||||
| Beth | Carlson | Viraj | Ghosh | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Mpemba Effect Restricted to Liquids? (Physics) | 7 | |
| Jim | Cox | Ken | Noh | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | A Mathematical Analysis of Animal Food Chains in Ngorongoro Crater (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |
| $100 Cash Award to Grades 7-8 plus cert, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Pauline | Rodriguez | Mara | Fong | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | How do Different Tastes Affect Each Other? (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |
| Annie | Yount | Elizabeth Grace | Miksztal | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Are We Killing the Ocean Glow? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |