Leland High School
Project Awards 2012
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leland High School | Anuradha | Sarkar | Colin Campbell | Aitken | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | On the Theory of Functions and Collatz Conjectures (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 |
| Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Kanish Achintya | Arhant-Sudhir | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | The Effect of Pet Exposure on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Responses to Mental Stress (Behavioral / Social) | 12 | |||
| Rish | Arhant-Sudhir | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | The Effect of Pet Exposure on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Responses to Mental Stress (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |||
| Frances Li | Chen | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | The Mutagenic Effects of Contaminants in Local Tap Water on Salmonella typhimurium (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Ryan Dz-Wei | Chow | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Pancreatic Cancer Differentiation Markers Identify Risk Groups (Bioinformatics) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Yu-Ju | Ho | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Are We Driven By Distractions: Effects of Different Extraneous Stimuli on Proprioception (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Celeste Tina | Kaashoek | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Impact of Bottle Aesthetics on Taste (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Neha | Kumar | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | The Mutagenic Effects of Contaminants in Local Tap Water on Salmonella typhimurium (Environmental Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Kristie | Kwak | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Heliotracker; An Innovative Solar Panel with Phototropic Technology (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Gift Card and Certificate, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Ashley Hoi-Ming | Lai | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Heliotracker; An Innovative Solar Panel with Phototropic Technology (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Gift Card and Certificate, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Esther | Lam | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Sound vs Sight: Which Causes Most Fright? (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Thomas Michael | Luh | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Gli2 as a Potential Drug Target in Lung Cancer (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Plaque and a $100 check, California Association of Professional Scientists | |||||||
| Nicki | Naddaf | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Does Sleep Deprivation Increase the Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Paramjyot Singh | Panesar | $100 First Place, Inez M. Lechner Award | Renewable Energy: Efficient Desalination (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Maria Rosa | Ruiz | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Sound vs Sight: Which Causes Most Fright? (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Anubhav | Sarkar | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | Ending Chromium Pollution: An inovative way to safely develop a dual-bacterial reducing model to end chromium polllution (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| Abhilash | Suresh | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Brewer's Yeast on Bacteria Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Robert | Tseng | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Brewer's Yeast on Bacteria Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Tiffany | Yip | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Are We Driven By Distractions: Effects of Different Extraneous Stimuli on Proprioception (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||