Harker School - High School Campus
Project Awards 2011
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School - High School Campus | Richard | Barber | Shreya A | Nathan | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Maximizing Device Efficiency and Stability in Organic P3HT:PCBOD Based Photovoltaic Cells (Chemistry) | 12 |
| 3rd Place Award - $100 each, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Gr 9-12, 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash, magazine Subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR: 10-12: Third Place, $25, T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Prag | Batra | Grade 11 or 12 team - $400 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | Novel Methods of Identifying Dark Matter (Physics) | 11 | |
| Special Award :$75 &Certificate, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Paulomi | Bhattacharya | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Optimizing the Microbial Fuel Cell-Microbial Electrolysis Cell Coupled System: A Novel Anaerobic Design for Hydrogen Generation (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Certificate, NOAA Medallion, letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Vikas Chandra | Bhetanabhotla | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Theoretical Study of Factors Affecting Molecular Specificity in Hyperpolarized MRI Scans (Physics) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Lucy | Cheng | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluating Mitigation Strategies for Infectious Disease Through Analysis of Social Networks (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Zareen | Choudhury | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Combating Sudden Oak Death: Testing Novel Treatments to Immunize Foliar Hosts Against P. ramorum (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Govinda | Dasu | Grade 11 or 12 team - $400 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | Novel Methods of Identifying Dark Matter (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Special Award :$75 &Certificate, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Frederic Nicholas | Enea | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Improving Photovoltaic Panel Efficiency via Dual Axis Sun Tracking (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Varun | Gudapati | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Correlations Between Ethnicity, Anthropometric Data, Metabolic Abnormalities, and Cardiovascular Health (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Anika | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Fight Against Superbugs: Relative Efficacies of Different Combinations in Destroying P. fluorescens and S. epidermidis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Divyahans | Gupta | Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | A Comparative Analysis of Common Sorting Algorithms with an Optimization of Mergesort (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Abhinav | Khanna | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Caffeine on Short Term Memory Retention (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| 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 | A Novel Perfusion-Based Protocol for Decellularization of Adipose Tissue on a Bioreactor (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Payal N. | Modi | 3rd Place HS Award - $25 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | The Relationship between Porosities and Dry Percolation Rates in Various Soil Samples. (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Varun | Mohan | $100 Cash Award to Grades 9-10 plus cert, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | The Butterfly Effect and Chaos: The Study of Double Pendulum (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Avinash | Nayak | 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash plus framed cert and subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Frequency and Acoustic SoundProofing (Physics) | 9 | |||
| GR 09-10: HP PW460t Digital Camera, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Suchita | Nety | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Investigation of Synthetic Complex Coacervates as Medical Adhesives. (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Daniel Ryan | Pak | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Affordable and Effective Methods to Test Water Quality (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Anika | Radiya-Dixit | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Efficacy of Single, Personalized Nutritive Scores for Foods in Making Healthy Diet Choices (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Ramya | Rangan | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluating Mitigation Strategies for Infectious Disease Through Analysis of Social Networks (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Pooja Dimple | Shah | Honorable Mention Award-Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Understanding the Corrosive Behavior of Stents for Life Science Applications (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| Rahul | Sridhar | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Multidocument Text Summarization Using Spectral Clustering (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Special Award :$75 &Certificate, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Christopher Steven | Sund | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of an Electromagnet Field on the Spontaneous Emission of Crystals (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Vikram | Sundar | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | An Algorithm to Determine Protein Structure Using Secondary and Tertiary Structure Prediction (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ravi | Tadinada | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of an Electromagnet Field on the Spontaneous Emission of Crystals (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Claudia Kaya | Tischler | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Growing Up with the Vitamin B Family (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Kiran N | Vodrahalli | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Increasing Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency by Improving Light Absorbance with a Near-Zero Reflectance Nano-Textured Surface (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $50 check and certificate, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| 1st place student- High School - $100 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Travis & Wells Charging Stand, Computer Backpack, Leeds Scripto Flash Jotter Bundle Set and Award Certificate in Folder, United States Air Force | |||||||