Harker School - High School Campus

Project Awards 2010

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Harker School - High School Campus	Kate	Schafer	Josephine	Chen	$100 for Best Technical Paper in Biological Sciences, Certificate, Dr. Paul X Callahan Technical Paper Awards	Functional Effects of Two Novel TnI Mutations Linked with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy (Technical Paper)	11
					1st Award, Technical Paper
			Tiffany	Chien	1st Award, Chemistry Category	Modifying TZD Drug to Improve Metabolism in Body (Chemistry)	11
			Jeanette	Chin	GR 10-12 Second place $125 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award	Identification of Autoantigens in Psoriatic Arthritis (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	12
					Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter
					2nd Award, Technical Paper
			Alex Lee	Han	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Celastrol, A Novel Inducer of the Stress Response Protein Heme Oxygenase-l, Confers Cytoprotection and Promotes Wound Healing in Cell Culture (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	12
					Honorable Mention Certificate (see comment below), MedImmune
					1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category
					1st Place : Bronze Medallion, Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate Folder, United States Army
					1st Award, Technical Paper
			Aditi Sudhir	Joshi	Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category	The Effects of Sleep Deprivation On Brain Function (Behavioral / Social)	11
			Ashley Sarah	Kling	1st Place : Bronze Medallion, Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate Folder, United States Army	An iPhone Application to Induce Transaction Security via Secondary Authentication (Engineering)	10
			Revanth	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	The Predictability and Abstractness of Language : A Study in Understanding and Usage of the English Language Through Probabilistic Modeling and Frequency (Behavioral / Social)	10
					1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category
					Santa Clara County Judging Committee High School Award of Excellence, $ 50 and Certificate of Award from National APA, American Psychological Association
					1st Award, Technical Paper
			Max	Lan	1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category	Altruistic Mindsets and Their Effects on Prosocial Behavior (Behavioral / Social)	11
			Andrea	Lincoln	2nd Award, Engineering Category	Fault Tolerance of Node Failures in a Stochastic Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks (Engineering)	12
					$100 check and certificate, Wireless Communications Alliance
					First Place HS- $150 Cash plus cert, RAE Systems
					HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army
					2nd Award, Technical Paper
			Isaac A	Madan	Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category	The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor 2 in the Assembly of Elastin Fibers (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	11
					Honorable Mention, Technical Paper
			Pranav Jamdagneya	Sharma	Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category	The Effects of Yoga & Chanting On Cardiovascular Health (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	9
			Supraja	Swamy	Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology	Novel Effects of Muscarinic Receptor Regulation in Cytokine Mediated Airway Inflammation (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	11
					Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter
					2nd Award, Technical Paper
			Kiran N.	Vodrahalli	Certificate of Achievement and instructions for Pewter Medallion (to come), Yale Science and Engineering Association	Modifications of Silicon Surface Morphology by Reactive Ion Etching and Resulting Impact on Electrical Charge Storage Capacity of Metal-Insulator-Metal Capacitors (Engineering)	11
					Gr 9-12, 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash, magazine Subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials
					HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army
			Jason David	Young	Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	A Comparative Study of Histone Modification Patterns in H1 Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	11
			Kevin Jerry	Zhang	Honorable Mention, Earth / Space Sciences Category	Extracting Information from Spectra of Andromeda Red Giant Stars: Temperature and Chemical Abundance (Earth / Space Sciences)	12
					Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center
					2nd Award, Technical Paper
			Andrew Chen	Zhou	1st Award, Technical Paper	Quantifying the Mix of Stellar Populations in Studies of the Andromeda Galaxy (Technical Paper)	12