Private
Project Awards 2012
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Schmahl Science Workshop | Preeti | Diwan | Medha Pravin | Narwankar | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Fruit Guard - A Media that will Scare Bacteria Away (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 |
| Nivedita | Rajendiran | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Camphor and Coconut Oil on Bacteria which Cause Ear Infections (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Sara | Ye | 1st place $50 and a certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Methane Production with Cow Manure (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Ali | Haghighi | Anin | Sayana | 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 | A Novel Configuration of Carbon Nanotubes to Selectively Target Chemotherapy-Resistant Cancer Stem Cells (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| GR 6-8: First Place, $75, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Nikash Dev | Shankar | $100 First Place, Inez M. Lechner Award | Insulin and Insulin Sensitizers: A Novel Theraputic Approach for the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease in Type II Diabetes Mellitus (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Emily S. | Wang | Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Can it Bee? Investigating Anti-Cancer Agent Propolis (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Aru | Hill | Pratik | Gongloor | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Measuring Light Scattering with Turbid Samples with Different Wavelengths of Light (Physics) | 7 | |
| Eric Thomas | Hooton | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Comparison of B-Carotene in Non-Organically Grown Spinach to Organically Grown Spinach (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Gokul Venkatraman | Kalyanasundaram | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Coriander on the Action of Augmentin & Zithromax on E. coli and Salmonella (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Vineet Sai | Kosaraju | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Optimization of Biofuel Production from the Algae Nannochloropsis oculata. (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Anvi Pravin | Madhani | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Vitamin C on the Bactericidal Activity of Copper (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| GR 6-8:Third Place, $25, T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Evani | Radiya-Dixit | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Algae Bioreactor for Biodiesel Production (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ajay | Rajan | Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Amylase Inhibitor from Guava Leaves (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Amrita | Venkatraman | 1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 6-8, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Fast Food Frenzy: Using Potato Products to Create and Test the Quality of Bioplastics (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Youssef | Ismail | Usha | Raman | Gift Card and Certificate, Society of Women Engineers | A Novel, Pain Free Way to Measure Blood Sugar Levels (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Rajiv | Sancheti | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Portable Milk Purification System (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| 1st place $100 cash plus certificate, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Kaushik Krishna | Sankar | 1st Award, Physics Category | A Study of the Energy Efficiencies in Different Insects (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Rahul Kasthuri | Sarathy | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Imitating Trees to Improve Solar Panel Placement (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Debnil A. | Sur | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of TiO2 Coating on Photovoltaic Cells (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Mark | Kent | Nitya | Mani | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Gr 9-12, 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash, Popular magazine Subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Pritika | Patel | Priya Anandhi | Sundaresan | 3rd Place Award - $100 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Mutant Madness (Zoology) | 7 | |
| Belinda | Schmahl | Leo | Yu | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Rhamnolipid Biosurfactant on Various Concentrations of Hydrocarbons (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |
| 2nd Place Award - $200 plus certificate, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| American Institute of Mathematics | Brian | Conrey | Mark A | Holmstrom | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Neighbors With Prescribed Prime Factors (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Theresa Lynn | McLaughlin | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Neighbors With Prescribed Prime Factors (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Archbishop Mitty High School | William | Abb | Arjun V | Balasingam | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Minimizing the Variability-Induced Power Overhead in Nanoscale SRAMs: Redundancy and Resiliency for Extremely Energy-Constrained Computing (Engineering) | 10 |
| 2nd place student - High School - $50 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| First Place: $300 + Rambus backpack, Rambus | |||||||
| GR 11-12: HP PAVg6z Laptop Computer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Janet | Fenker | Vadim | Korolik | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Using Archimedes' Principle to Study Heat Transfer (Physics) | 9 | |
| Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ronald | Nicoletti | Namrata Ramya | Balasingam | 1st Award, Physics Category | Murray's Principle of Minimum Work and the Biomimetic Design of Efficient Microfluidic Networks for Tissue Engineering (Physics) | 9 | |
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Second Place: $200 + Rambus backpack, Rambus | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Patrick | Adams | Nikhil | Buduma | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Pertussis Toxin Mediated Inhibition of Leukocyte Trafficking into Lung Tissue (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 |
| $100 American Express gift check, plaque, certificate and 6-week summer internship, MedImmune | |||||||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Rod | Wong | Abrar | Choudhury | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Developing a Novel Method to Decontaminate dSph Data for M31 Mass Estimation (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |
| GR 11-12: HP PAVg6z Laptop Computer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Alex S. | Powers | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Optimization of Postharvest Storage Conditions Affecting Nutrients and Taste in Fruits (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | |||||||
| Grade 11 Individual Project - $200 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | |||||||
| Omkar | Savant | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Creating an APSARR: Affordable Portable Search and Rescue Robot (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $100 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| James Joe | Thomas | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Predictive Model of Alcohol Dependence Based on Genetic and Demographic Factors (Bioinformatics) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Canyon Heights Academy | Teresa | Lesieutre | John | Ghantous | 1st Award, Physics Category | Wind Power (Physics) | 6 |
| Kaitlynn Taylor | Sierra | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Now You See It, Now You Don't (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Alexander Bao | Vu | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Saturated Soil (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Carden Academy of Almaden | Anuradha | Murthy | Arushi | Agarwal | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Veggie Power: Analysis of nutrient reduction over time in vegetables (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 |
| 2nd place $60 cash plus certificate, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Poulomi | Banerjee | GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Human Body: Source of Battery Power (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Chris Neha | Dhayanand | Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | Space Debris Elimination (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aleksandar George | Kalman | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Lets Fly: Experimenting with Propulsion Force (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Aditi | Mittal | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Organic Chlorinated Compounds in the Environment: Nano-particle Remediation of Trihalomethane (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Gr 6-8, 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash,Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Shanaya | Nagendran | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | How Gray can You Go? Growing Plants with Reused Water (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Meera R | Patel | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Green Clay: Mechanics of Pliability (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Vandana Karempudi | Reddy | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Backyard Powerplants: Watt is Mud/Compost Energy? (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Carden Day School of San Jose | David | Pardue | Benjamin J. | Ma | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Just What the Spin Doctor Ordered: Lubricants on a rotating Axle (Physics) | 7 |
| $50 Cash Award, Hegland Award | |||||||
| Clayton C | Moore | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | How Does Visible Light Affect Temperature? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Joshua Zachir | Upham | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Which Type of Environmental Waste can be Used to Filter Water? (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Challenger - Almaden | Pronati | Mondal | Eric Kevin | Wang | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Rolling With Resistance (Physics) | 7 |
| Challenger - Middlefield -Palo Alto | Tini | Raman | Jerry | Guo | Family and Friends memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum | Efficiency of Space Tesselations (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 |
| Eliana | Stone | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Trends in the Emission Spectra of Elements (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Priyanka Ram | Vatturi | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Eyes, Ears or Both (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Virginia F | Hsiao | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Mmm! Investigating the Effect of Chocolate on the Growth of Probiotic Bacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 |
| Anjini | Karthik | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Green Nanotechnology : Novel Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles For Bioapplications (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $500 plus certificate, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Book, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi | |||||||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ishana Hansini | Narayanan | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of the Different Colors of Light on Plant Growth (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Srivatsav | Pyda | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Effect of Shape and Material on Reflected Light (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Pravin | Ravishanker | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Vrikshayurveda - Bio Vita for Plants: The Effects of Antioxidant Rich Foods on Plants' Growth and Health (Botany) | 7 | |||
| Roger | Terrill | Arpita | Singhal | 1st Award, Botany Category | Herbalism as a Hypoglycemic Agent: Evaluation of Alpha Amylase Inhibition by Different Medicinal Plants (Botany) | 8 | |
| Challenger -Strawberry Park | Julie | Blackwell | Siddartha | Punj | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | The Power of Persuasion and Memory (Behavioral / Social) | 8 |
| Heather | Pelayo | Rehan Sohail | Durrani | Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | Emorobo2 (Engineering) | 7 | |
| One free week-long class at the Tech Summer Camps 2012 (excluding full day courses), The Tech Summer Camps | |||||||
| Aleezah | Salmaan | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Green Coffee Stirrer (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Andrew Stanley | Sundaram | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Multitasking's Degrees of Efficiency (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Uttam K | Suryadevara | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Computer Interactive Body Tracking System (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rahul | Tewari | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Traffic Flow Improvement using Automated Braking Distance Control (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Granada Islamic School | Shagufta | Akhtar | Roxanna | Hashemi | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Effect of Cell phone standard, distance and position electromagnetic radiations (Physics) | 7 |
| Zahra Bismah | Masood | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effectiveness of Bioremediation with Different and Varying Concentrations of Essential Elements (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Lab coat, Labcoat Award for Lab Bench Finesse | |||||||
| Rabia | Mohiuddin | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Oil Spills on Aquatic Plants (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Yasmine Khaled | Rabia | $50 Cash Award to student (split if team), certificate(s), letter(s), Al Foster Award | The Effect Of Electromagnetic Fields on the Growth and Structure of Eremosphaera Algae Cells (Botany) | 7 | |||
| Burhaan Amhed | Syed | GR 06-08: HP 35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | Ceiling Height and Room Temperature (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Sumizah | Qureshi | Umelbanin Mohammad | Alofi | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Using Surface Tension (Physics) | 6 | |
| Nadeeya Nasrin | Amjadi | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Rubber-Band Powered Cart (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Zachariah Yusuf | Lichtenberg | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Sound Travel on Mars (Physics) | 8 | |||
| 2nd place student - Middle School - $50 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Afrah | Siddiqi | Honorable Mention MS - cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Riprap:Erosion Stop (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Greene Scholars Program | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Keyshaun R. | McLeod | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Which Football Tackle is Most Effective? (Physics) | 6 |
| Harker School - Middle School Campus | Scott | Kley-Contini | Anika | Mohindra | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Measuring the Effects of Sunscreen on Plant Growth Under Higher UV Radiation (Botany) | 8 |
| Benjamin | Morgensen | Sneha Shri | Bhetanabhotla | 1st Award, Physics Category | Energy Generation Using Reverse Electrowetting (Physics) | 7 | |
| GR 6-8: Second Place, $50, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Kristen | Ko | 2nd pl MS- $100 plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Natural Filtering of Storm Water Runoff (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Rishabh Uday | Chandra | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Temperature Variation on the Current Output of Photovoltaic Silicon Solar Panels (Physics) | 8 | |
| Avi S | Khemani | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Impact of Reducing Ethanol Alcohol On Hand Sanitizer (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Jonathan QuanXuan | Ma | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Temperature Variation on the Current Output of Photovoltaic Silicon Solar Panels (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Manan A | Shah | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Impact of Reducing Ethanol Alcohol On Hand Sanitizer (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Michael Jie | Zhao | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Wonders of Garlic (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Daniel | Sommer | Venkat Narayanan | Sankar | 1st Award, Botany Category | Using Astragalus purshii var. tinctus to Inhibit Growth of Invasive Thistles (Botany) | 7 | |
| Harker School - Upper School Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Sriram | Somasundaram | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Non-Invasive Approach for Cataracts: Efficacy of N-Acetyl L-Carnosine for Treatment and Prevention of Crystallin Aggregation with CdTe (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 |
| $100 First Place, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Prag | Batra | Honorable Mention Certificate, MedImmune | Storage of Active Biological Compounds in Silk Films (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |
| Grade 12 Individual Project - $200 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | |||||||
| Robbie | Korin | Stephanie | Chen | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Energy from Sugar: Using Glucose to Create an Efficient Battery (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| Kristine | Lin | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Energy from Sugar: Using Glucose to Create an Efficient Battery (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| Chris | Spenner | Sarika | Bajaj | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | Underwater Three Dimensional Mapping Camera Systems (UTDMCS) (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Paulomi | Bhattacharya | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP competition, including hotel and accomodations for up to two students and one advisor. Certificate, I-SWEEEP | Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Internal Alkyne-Stabilized Ruthenium Nanoparticles For Molecular Electronics Applications: The Effects of Ligand Structure and Interfacial Bonding on Optoelectronic Properties (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| 3rd Place Team Award - $300 plus certificate, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| GR 9-12 Second Place, $50, Book, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Vikas Chandra | Bhetanabhotla | 1st Award, Physics Category | A Novel Approach to Combating Brain Tumors Using Hyperpolarized C13 NMR (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Lucy | Cheng | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Detailed Chemical Abundance Patterns of Andromeda Dwarf Satellites From Coadded Spectra (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Emily Liwen | Chu | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Maximization of An Enzymatic Fuel Cell's Power Output (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Christopher | Fu | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Inhibiting Combustion Through Low-Pressure Sound Wave Rarefactions (Physics) | 10 | |||
| HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Anika | Gupta | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Biofuel Production: Determination of Cellobiase Concentration in Various Fungi. (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Matthew Z | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Inhibiting Combustion Through Low-Pressure Sound Wave Rarefactions (Physics) | 9 | |||
| HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Rishabh | Jain | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | A Novel Approach to Audio Classification Using Spectral Analysis and Gene Clustering Techniques (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Saachi | Jain | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium at Varying pHs (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| Gr 9-12, 1st Place Award - $100 Cash, Popular Science Magazine Subscrtiption, Certicate; ISEF Cert & medallion mailed from ASM Educational Foundation,, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Eesha | Khare | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP competition, including hotel and accomodations for up to two students and one advisor. Certificate, I-SWEEEP | Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Internal Alkyne-Stabilized Ruthenium Nanoparticles For Molecular Electronics Applications: The Effects of Ligand Structure and Interfacial Bonding on Optoelectronic Properties (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| 3rd Place Team Award - $300 plus certificate, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| GR 9-12 Second Place, $50, Book, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Revanth Sai | Kosaraju | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Role of Epidermal Hif-1 alpha in the Inflammatory and Angiogenic Response to Ischemia in Diabetic Wound Healing (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, MedImmune | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Payal N. | Modi | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Maximization of An Enzymatic Fuel Cell's Power Output (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Neil Kamal | Movva | $100 First Place, Inez M. Lechner Award | A Novel Use of RC Circuits As Sensors in 3D Field HIDs (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Suchita | Nety | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Investigation of Synthetic Bioadhesive Hydrogels for Internal Medical Use (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Anika | Radiya-Dixit | $500 savings bond and plaque (if group project, savings bond $250/ea for 2 ppl; $150/ea for 3 ppl; $125/ea for 4 ppl) All receive Plaques., California Society for Biomedical Research - Ron Orta Excellence in Biomedical Research Award | Analysing the Effects of Deferoxamine Patches for Wound Healing in Diabetic Mice (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Tara Sheida | Rezvani | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Facial Feature Recognition Capabilities of Teenagers (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Vikram | Sundar | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | A Novel Potential-Energy-Based Algorithm for Protein Docking (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Vedant | Thayagaraj | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effect of 'Raja Yoga' on Objective and Subjective Sleep Parameters in Teens - A Pilot Home Sleep Monitoring Study (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Sarina S. | Vij | Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Calcium Signaling in the Regenerative Process of Botryllus schlosseri (sea squirt) (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| $100 Cash Award, certificate, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Albert Yuejun | Wu | $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | Multi-net Bayesian Networks for Integrative Genomic Discovery (Bioinformatics) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Stanley | Xie | Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | An Examination of the Oncogenic E-Cadherin Through C. Elegans and Its Extensive Effects upon Metastasis (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Samyukta | Yagati | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Detecting Duplicate Content in Text Documents Using N-Gram Indexing (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Holy Family School | Phil | Mariant | Christina Elizabeth | Benefer | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | Does Latitude Affect Bean Growth? (Botany) | 6 |
| Jasmine Violet | Parada | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Low Cost Multipurpose Soft Toss Trainer (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Homeschool-Hails | Kelly | Hails | Leah | Hails | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Aerodynamic Performance of Gliders in Wind Tunnels (Physics) | 9 |
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| GR 09-10: HP PhotoSmart C310a printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Howe STEM Leadership Academy | John | Howe | Ethan Andrew | Chi | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effect of Fertilizer on the Growth of Capsicum annum L. (Botany) | 6 |
| $100 Cash Award, certificate, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Grace | Deng | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Will Fertilization Accelerate the Growth Curve of Helianthus annus L. (Botany) | 11 | |||
| Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Tania Lanthy | Pham | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Which Materials Make the Best Insulator? (Environmental Sciences) | 6 |
| Pritha | Roy | Nilarun | Sanyal | Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | Finding the Launch Angle at Which the Launch Distance is the Highest (Physics) | 6 | |
| Andrew Cyril | Shacker | 1st Award, Physics Category | Aerial Twist (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Milpitas Christian School | Lindon | Richards | Rishi P. | Desai | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Creating a Video Game for the Blind (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 |
| Dylan S | Patel | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What is the Fastest Way to Cool a Soda? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Most Holy Trinity | Stephanie | Jordan | Quang-Van Thanh | Tran | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Multi-Paned Windows With Solar Concentrators (Engineering) | 8 |
| Mountain View Academy | Jim | Marxmiller | Zhimeng | Dong | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effect of Different Soil Types on Mung Bean Growth (Botany) | 11 |
| Pei Hsuan | Lu | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Music and Exercise: High Tempo = High Speed? (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Old Orchard School | Sue | Greathouse | Murad Nazer | Awad | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Better Protection - Cloth Or Sunscreen? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 |
| Vivian Ruoh-Yun | Chiang | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Greenhouse Effect and Warming Of the Surface (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Gabriel Oliver | Hyun | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Stable Soil: Comparing Soils Before and After Compaction (Earth / Space Sciences) | 7 | |||
| 3rd pl MS- $50 plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Holly Marie | Jackson | 1st Award, Physics Category | Super Sound Science (Physics) | 6 | |||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Kian | Lechner | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Better Protection - Cloth Or Sunscreen? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| Abigail Marie | McCarthy | Honorable Mention, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Constructing Tsunami Barriers (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Hannah | Patrignani | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Fluorescent Flowers (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Catherine Miyuki | Petersen | Honorable Mention, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Constructing Tsunami Barriers (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Eva Elise | Szoboszlay | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Soak Up Oil! (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Thomas Zongcan | Zhang | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Stable Soil: Comparing Soils Before and After Compaction (Earth / Space Sciences) | 7 | |||
| 3rd pl MS- $50 plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Linh | Pham | Ethan Schuyler | Bair | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Please Fletch Your Arrows (Physics) | 8 | |
| Presentation High School | Suzanne | Colvin | Deepika Cherukure | Bodapati | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Investigation of the Potential Role of PKM2 as a PET Molecular Imaging Target (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 |
| Nicole | Odell | Azeba | Bajwa | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | Daphnia and Energy Drinks (Zoology) | 12 | |
| Soumya | Banna | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Noise Destroys - The Physical & Mental Effects of Noise Pollution (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Christine Veronica | Bernal | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Biodiversity in the Waters of the Lower Pajaro River Region (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Lena Kitchley | Egbert | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Plant Power: An Alternate Method of Converting Solar Energy to Electricity (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| GR 09-10: HP PhotoSmart C310a printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Caroline Emi | Fukawa | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | How do Different Variables Affect the Amount of Bacteria in Different Types of Water? (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Shreya Suhas | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Affect of Environmental Factor on Testing the Accuracy of Eschechia coli Strain B DNA (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Ritika | Pai | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | Daphnia and Energy Drinks (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Sonia A. | Patel | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Dysregulated BMPRii/TGFbeta Signaling Impairs Elastin Fiber Assembly in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Preethi Naga | Siva | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Affect of Environmental Factor on Testing the Accuracy of Eschechia coli Strain B DNA (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Anna Teresa | Thomas | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Modulation of HIF-1 alpha and Pro-Inflammatory Mediators by GABAergic Signaling: Identification of TNFR1 Inhibition As a Novel Preventative Strategy against Interneuron Dysfunction in Autistic Spectrum Disorders (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Richa M | Wadekar | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | None For The Road - Distracted Driving (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |||
| PSP | Yasmin | Aladin | Sana Zehra | Aladin | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Who Remembers? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 |
| Nidhi Jyoti | Jain | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Who Remembers? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Ramana Academy (homeschool) | Mamtha | Adiseshan | Athman R. | Adiseshan | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Predicting Real World Characteristics from Virtual Behavior (Behavioral / Social) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | |||||||
| Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Saint Christopher School | Nicholas | Guttadauro | Carissa Angela | Borello | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Can You Hear Me Now? (Physics) | 8 |
| Maya Alexandra | De La Torre | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Can You Hear Me Now? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| JoElle | Hernandez | Mckenzie Ann | Chapman | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Is Fresh Always Better? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |
| Arturo David | Gamboa-Gonzalez | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Energy Farm (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Saint Francis High School | Roberta | Chisam | Leela J. | Amladi | Special Award :$75 & Certificate, Varian Medical Systems | Helping Forgetful Seniors Locate Items (Engineering) | 9 |
| Vidya Srinivas | Raghvendra | Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on the Genes Involved with Circadian Rythms in the Mouse Brain (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Linda | Segal | Shubha Srinivas | Raghvendra | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Microfluidic-Based Single Cell Analysis Identifies a Critically Depleted Vasculogenic Subpopulation in Diabetes (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Saint Joseph of Cupertino Elementary School | Lisa | Wicht | Julia H | Read | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Flour Power (Chemistry) | 8 |
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Krista | Howell-Nguyen | Sophia Louiza | Dahmani | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Natural vs Synthetic Antibiotics (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 |
| Nilan | Emmanuel | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Magnets to the Rescue (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Ishani Aniruddha | Karmarkar | 1st Award, Physics Category | Unlocking Nature's Secret to Green and Efficient Solar Energy (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Family and Friends memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum | |||||||
| Tithi | Mandal | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Efficiency of a Solar Panel Depending on it's Temperature (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Sanam Suraj | Nagvekar | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Power to the Ping-Pong Player (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Amie Elise | Schneider | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | What Affects the Amount of Leachable Lead in Toys the Most? (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Nickhil C. | Tekwani | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Spectrum of Light & Solar Cells (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Neha | Makhijani | Vardhaan Sai | Ambati | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Does the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells like PEM fuel cells and methanol fuel cells change when the pH of the electrolyte is altered? (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Mythri | Ambatipudi | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Bitter-Sweet Therapy (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 | |||
| Anushka Prasad | Jogalekar | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | A Low Cost Accessible and Safe Method for Detecting Iron Content in Food (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Maya | Mundada | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Which Of Five Senses Is Most Sensitive To Distraction In Online Self Education (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Anish | Seshadri | 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 | Automated wireless monitoring and control system (AWMCS) for greenhouse management (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Matthew Raymond | Wong | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Germs on wheels: How clean is your Shopping Cart after wiping with a hand sanitizing wipe? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Maxwell | Yun | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | How Does Pressure of a Fluid Entering a Tesla Turbine Affect its RPM Output (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Sujata | Reast | Mallika Nithya | Yeleswarapu | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Ocean Acidification: The Effect of Ocean pH on Marine Calcifiers (Environmental Sciences) | 7 |
| 1st place AWG SFBA Chapter Invite to annual Outstanding Student Award Banquet, SAGE Certificate, gift certificate, and one-year AWG Student Membership, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Best Project: $50, certificate, and voucher for course materials and attendance at a safe boating course., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Martin | Wiedemann | Divya Lekshmi | Empranthiri | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Effects of Temperature On a Chemical Reaction (Chemistry) | 6 | |
| Anuv | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Blown Away With Windmills (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Shreya Rajesh | Khandewale | GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Living Roofs (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Christopher Hafai | Yip | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Bridges (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st pl MS- $150 plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| GR 06-08: HP 35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Allison | Yuan | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Fresh or Frozen? Glucose Levels in Food (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Valley Christian | Jennifer | Gerlach | Nick Alexander | Angelillis | GR 10-12 Second place $150 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award | Bacterial Induced Apoptosis of Various Cancerous Tissues (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 |
| Monica Himaani | Bodd | GR 10-12 Second place $150 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award | Bacterial Induced Apoptosis of Various Cancerous Tissues (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Audrey Eunyoung | Chang | Honorable Mention: T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Effectiveness of Nanotechnology Based Product (Sharklet) in the Inhibition of Bacterial Growth in a Classroom Environment (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Karen | Mac | Honorable Mention: T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Effectiveness of Nanotechnology Based Product (Sharklet) in the Inhibition of Bacterial Growth in a Classroom Environment (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Eyobed | Mesfun | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effects of Electric & Magnetic Fields with Negative Charges & Varying Frequencies in the Cell Line U-87 Mg & Escherichia Coli (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Howell | Ivy | Akhilesh Ahilleas | Aji | $100 Cash Award to Grades 9-10 plus cert, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Random Number Generation Through Use of Muonic Detection (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and lapel pin, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| Mason Christopher | Ivy | 1st Place Award - $250 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | Individualized Communication Without Infrastructure (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place: Polo Shirt. Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Jae Hoon | Kang | Gr 9-12, 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash, Popular Science Magazine subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Silicon Encapsulation of Solar Panel - Going Green (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Gerrit Chi Luk | Orthlieb | $100 Cash Award to Grades 9-10 plus cert, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Random Number Generation Through Use of Muonic Detection (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and lapel pin, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| Yavneh Day School | David | Oliver | Shira Joy | Kahn-Samuelson | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Can Children Perceive if their Peers are Truly Smiling (Behavioral / Social) | 8 |
| Santa Clara County Judging Committee Middle School First Place Award of $25 + Certificate, American Psychological Association | |||||||