Santa Clara Unified School District
Project Awards 2011
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchser Middle School | Stephen | Chandler | Dale Ryan | Houtz | 1st pl MS- $100 plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Will Changing the Size of Grains of Sand in a Pile of Sand change the angle of Repose? (Physics) | 7 |
| Amy | Reeber | George | Kovacevic | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Is That Hillside Safe? (Earth / Space Sciences) | 8 | |
| Honorable Mention MS - cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Gabriella Marie | Medina | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Going Green To Be Clean (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Don Callejon Middle Sch. | Krista | Woodward | Akaash Vikrant | Tawade | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | How Does the Shape of a Tower Affect the Amount of Wind Speed it Can Withstand? (Physics) | 6 |
| Peterson Middle School | Demetrius | Asekomeh | John Alexander | Cannon | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | Pesticides: Bug Killer Plant Dilipidator (Botany) | 7 |
| Nancy | Fohner | Joseph Lawrence | Kalb | Certificate, NOAA Medallion, letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Pond Study (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |
| Melanie Christine | Kent | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Bulimia: Negative Side Effects (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| Allie Elisabeth | Pires | Lab coat, Labcoat Award for Lab Bench Finesse | The Effect of Different Nutrients On the Mass of Duckweed Over 6 Days (Botany) | 7 | |||
| Tanay | Tandon | 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 | A Cost and Energy Efficient Water Purification System for Removal of Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic Bacteria Using Electrolysis-based Techniques (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Lynnanne | Henderson | Shivali | Baveja | Honorable Mention Award-Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Does Heat Affect The Amount Of Electricity Generated In A Metal Conjunction? (Physics) | 6 | |
| Shashank H. | Dholakia | 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 | Which Affects Transpiration the Most - Light or Temperature (Botany) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Botany Category | |||||||
| Shishir H. | Dholakia | 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 | Which Affects Transpiration the Most - Light or Temperature (Botany) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Botany Category | |||||||
| Wilcox High School | Craig | Young | Scott B. | Cesar | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | On the Creation of Music Through the Application of Genetic Programming to Fractal Systems (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 |
| Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Jessica S. | Sawanni | 3rd Place Award - $100 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | The Memory Span of Different Species of Goldfish (Zoology) | 9 | |||