A Schmahl Science Workshop
Project Awards 2011
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Schmahl Science Workshop | Belinda | Schmahl | Sathya | Baskaran | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | Does Socialization Affect Interest in Activities? (Behavioral / Social) | 8 |
| Deepika C | Bodapati | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Engineering Peptides for Prostate Cancer Detection (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Audrey | DeGuzman | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing Rates of Fermentation (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Apoorva Rajiv | Dharmadhikari | Plaque and a $100 check, California Association of Professional Scientists | An Alternative Approach to the Sterile Insect Technique (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Rachel Christine | Jue | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing Rates of Fermentation (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Anjini | Karthik | 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 | Green Gold: Maximizing Algal Biomass Production of Chlorella and Scenedesmus for Use in Biofuel (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| Nitya | Mani | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Can Jatropha Oil be Converted into a Usable and Cost-Efficient Green Alternative Fuel? (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Natalie | Ng | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Discovery of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Antagonists by Large-Scale Structure-Based Virtual Screening (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Nisha | Parmeshwar | 2nd Place Award - $200, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | A Study of the Link Between Leucine at Position 374 of the MATP Protein and Hypopigmentation in Humans (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| GR 10-12 Third place $75 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award | |||||||
| Vishwaesh | Rajiv | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | An Investigation of the Effects of Silencing HIF-1 in C.elegans to Study Hypoxic Stress Survival (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $100 each, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Pranav G | Reddy | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Natural Remedies on the Growth of Strep. pneumoneae & E. coli In Vitro. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Ahon | Sarkar | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effect of 3 SIRT-1 Inducers on the Production of Alzheimer's Causing Beta-Amyloid Plaques. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Check for $200 and certificate, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in memorium - a Top Biological HS project | |||||||
| Anin | Sayana | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Novel Therapeutic Solution for Rheumatoid Arthritis Using TNF and c-Fms Targeted Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition with 2,4-diaminopyrimidine and Arnica (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| Nikash Dev | Shankar | 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 | Striking a Blow in Alzheimer's: Role of ApoE-Mediated Inflammatory Pathways on Tau Phosphorylation (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Vishnu | Shankar | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Naturally Efficient Computing Techniques to Build Molecular Logic Circuits (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Amrita | Singh | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | The Effect of Different Pairings of Male and Female Crickets on chirps (Zoology) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $125 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Sriram | Somasundaram | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Curcumin on Heliobacter pylori Growth, Probiotic Growth, and Iron Absorption in Vitro (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Amrita | Venkatraman | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Drink This Instead: Investigating the Various Antioxidants of Different Teas (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| 1st place $100 cash plus certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Steven Michael | Wang | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | In Vitro Analysis of Gold Nanoparticles: Cancer Cell Uptake Kinetics and Novel IPL Treatment Modeled by Monte Carlo Simulations (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| GR 6-9: First Place, $75, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||