Harker School - Upper School Campus
Project Awards 2012
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
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Harker School - Upper School Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Sriram | Somasundaram | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Non-Invasive Approach for Cataracts: Efficacy of N-Acetyl L-Carnosine for Treatment and Prevention of Crystallin Aggregation with CdTe (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 |
$100 First Place, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
Matthew | Harley | Prag | Batra | Honorable Mention Certificate, MedImmune | Storage of Active Biological Compounds in Silk Films (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |
Grade 12 Individual Project - $200 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | |||||||
Robbie | Korin | Stephanie | Chen | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Energy from Sugar: Using Glucose to Create an Efficient Battery (Chemistry) | 10 | |
Kristine | Lin | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Energy from Sugar: Using Glucose to Create an Efficient Battery (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
Chris | Spenner | Sarika | Bajaj | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | Underwater Three Dimensional Mapping Camera Systems (UTDMCS) (Engineering) | 10 | |
Paulomi | Bhattacharya | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP competition, including hotel and accomodations for up to two students and one advisor. Certificate, I-SWEEEP | Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Internal Alkyne-Stabilized Ruthenium Nanoparticles For Molecular Electronics Applications: The Effects of Ligand Structure and Interfacial Bonding on Optoelectronic Properties (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
3rd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
3rd Place Team Award - $300 plus certificate, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
GR 9-12 Second Place, $50, Book, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
Vikas Chandra | Bhetanabhotla | 1st Award, Physics Category | A Novel Approach to Combating Brain Tumors Using Hyperpolarized C13 NMR (Physics) | 10 | |||
Lucy | Cheng | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Detailed Chemical Abundance Patterns of Andromeda Dwarf Satellites From Coadded Spectra (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
Emily Liwen | Chu | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Maximization of An Enzymatic Fuel Cell's Power Output (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
Christopher | Fu | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Inhibiting Combustion Through Low-Pressure Sound Wave Rarefactions (Physics) | 10 | |||
HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
Anika | Gupta | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Biofuel Production: Determination of Cellobiase Concentration in Various Fungi. (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
Matthew Z | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Inhibiting Combustion Through Low-Pressure Sound Wave Rarefactions (Physics) | 9 | |||
HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
Rishabh | Jain | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | A Novel Approach to Audio Classification Using Spectral Analysis and Gene Clustering Techniques (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
Saachi | Jain | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium at Varying pHs (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
Gr 9-12, 1st Place Award - $100 Cash, Popular Science Magazine Subscrtiption, Certicate; ISEF Cert & medallion mailed from ASM Educational Foundation,, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
Eesha | Khare | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP competition, including hotel and accomodations for up to two students and one advisor. Certificate, I-SWEEEP | Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Internal Alkyne-Stabilized Ruthenium Nanoparticles For Molecular Electronics Applications: The Effects of Ligand Structure and Interfacial Bonding on Optoelectronic Properties (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
3rd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
3rd Place Team Award - $300 plus certificate, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
GR 9-12 Second Place, $50, Book, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
Revanth Sai | 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 | Role of Epidermal Hif-1 alpha in the Inflammatory and Angiogenic Response to Ischemia in Diabetic Wound Healing (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
Honorable Mention Certificate, MedImmune | |||||||
1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
Payal N. | Modi | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Maximization of An Enzymatic Fuel Cell's Power Output (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
Neil Kamal | Movva | $100 First Place, Inez M. Lechner Award | A Novel Use of RC Circuits As Sensors in 3D Field HIDs (Engineering) | 9 | |||
Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
Suchita | Nety | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Investigation of Synthetic Bioadhesive Hydrogels for Internal Medical Use (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
2nd Place Award - $75 Cash plus framed cert and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
Anika | Radiya-Dixit | $500 savings bond and plaque (if group project, savings bond $250/ea for 2 ppl; $150/ea for 3 ppl; $125/ea for 4 ppl) All receive Plaques., California Society for Biomedical Research - Ron Orta Excellence in Biomedical Research Award | Analysing the Effects of Deferoxamine Patches for Wound Healing in Diabetic Mice (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
Tara Sheida | Rezvani | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Facial Feature Recognition Capabilities of Teenagers (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
Vikram | Sundar | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | A Novel Potential-Energy-Based Algorithm for Protein Docking (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
Vedant | Thayagaraj | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effect of 'Raja Yoga' on Objective and Subjective Sleep Parameters in Teens - A Pilot Home Sleep Monitoring Study (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
Sarina S. | Vij | Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Calcium Signaling in the Regenerative Process of Botryllus schlosseri (sea squirt) (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
$100 Cash Award, certificate, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
Albert Yuejun | Wu | $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | Multi-net Bayesian Networks for Integrative Genomic Discovery (Bioinformatics) | 12 | |||
1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
Stanley | Xie | Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | An Examination of the Oncogenic E-Cadherin Through C. Elegans and Its Extensive Effects upon Metastasis (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
Samyukta | Yagati | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Detecting Duplicate Content in Text Documents Using N-Gram Indexing (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||