Santa Clara Unified School District
Project Awards 2012
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchser Middle School | Rachel | Hager | Kerry Elizabeth | Kovacevic | Gr 6-8, 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash, Popular Science Magazine subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Metal vs Metal: The coefficient of Thermal Expansion (Physics) | 7 |
| Amy | Reeber | Muhammad Muayad | Alsharif | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Unleash the Power of a Pinwheel (Physics) | 6 | |
| Sean McCrory | Mignosa | 2nd Award, Physics Category | I'm Floating, I'm Floating, Now Push Me! (Physics) | 6 | |||
| $50 Cash Award, Hegland Award | |||||||
| Angie J | Pavao | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Got Water? (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Charlotte Niamh | Thompson | 1st Award, Physics Category | Collapsed (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Ryan William | Winter | $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Dip, Spray, Dry: The Chronicles of Fingerprinting (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Don Callejon Middle Sch. | Krista | Woodward | Akshaya | Karthikeyan | 1st Award, Physics Category | Which Liquid Cools Faster After Heating to a Limited Amount of Time and Temperature? (Physics) | 7 |
| Joshua | Liu | 3rd Place $40 cash plus certificate, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Yeast Metabolism and Sugar Substitutes (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Bryon Nicholas | Tjanaka | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Implementing the Dotted-Line Navigation System in an Automated Warehouse (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Student memberships to AIAA, certificates, and programmable robots, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Peterson Middle School | Demetrius | Asekomeh | Mark Andrew | Guevara | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Acid Reigns (Chemistry) | 7 |
| Nikhil | Gupta | 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 6-8, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Sulfuric Acid's Effect on Common Metals (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Takashi Thomas | Quinlan | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Acid Reigns (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Shalin | Shah | 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 6-8, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Sulfuric Acid's Effect on Common Metals (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Nancy | Fohner | Shivali | Baveja | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | What are the Effects of UV-C Light on Elodea? (Botany) | 7 | |
| Shashank H. | Dholakia | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Sky is No Limit - A Comparative Observation of the Variable Stars Beta-Lyrae and Delta-Cephei Using Accurate Backyard Photometry (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Shishir H. | Dholakia | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Sky is No Limit - A Comparative Observation of the Variable Stars Beta-Lyrae and Delta-Cephei Using Accurate Backyard Photometry (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Vaheeshta Sharon | Mehrshahi | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | Do Women (ages 20-30) See Detail in Less Time Than Men (ages 20-30)? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Tamara | Pantic | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | Do Women (ages 20-30) See Detail in Less Time Than Men (ages 20-30)? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Sai Shreeram | Siddhaye | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Loss of Vitamin C in Red Bell Peppers after Cooking in Three Different Ways (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Wilcox High School | Craig | Young | Alex John | Kasses | 1st place, $50 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | The Generation of Electricity by Piezoelectric Ocean Walls (Engineering) | 12 |
| Shivam Dinesh | Patel | 1st Award, Zoology Category | The Effect of Algae Species on the Growth of Brine Shrimp (Zoology) | 9 | |||
| Alistair William | Twombly | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Mimicking Human Measures of Textual Similarity with River-Formation Dynamics Algorithm (Engineering) | 12 | |||