Lynbrook High School

Project Awards 2010

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Lynbrook High School  Amanda Alonzo  Sindhu  Addepalli 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category Effect of Various Household Contaminants on Various Flowering Plant Cells (Environmental Sciences) 9
        Priyanka  Athavale Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Observing Stress Hormesis and Its' Effect On the Cognitive Development and Life Span of C.elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 12
              1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category    
        Sudarshan (Sudi)  Bhat Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Observing Stress Hormesis and Its' Effect On the Cognitive Development and Life Span of C.elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 12
              1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category    
        Jennifer Shuen Chen $100 American Express gift check, plaque, certificate and 6-week summer internship, MedImmune Functional Consequences of Two Human Cardiac Troponin T Mutations Associated With Cardiomyopathy (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 11
              First Place: $100 Cash, Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter    
              HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army    
              $100 for Best Technical Paper in Biological Sciences, Certificate, Dr. Paul X Callahan Technical Paper Awards    
              1st Award, Technical Paper    
        Tony  Ho Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Using an Ontology-Driven Semantically Annotated Microarray Repository with Thermal Graident Focusing Mass Spectronomy for Early Disease Detection (Engineering) 12
              $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis    
              1st Award, Engineering Category    
              Check of $50 - Best project in Computer Science, Infotech Outreach Award    
        Eric  Hu Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta The Effects or the Usage of Laplacian Filters to Coordinate Edges in Images (Computers / Mathematics) 11
        Eesha  Khare 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category Effect of Various Household Contaminants on Various Flowering Plant Cells (Environmental Sciences) 9
        David C. Liu Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Continual Adaptation of Acoustic Models for Domain-Specific Speech Recognition (Computers / Mathematics) 12
              1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
              HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army    
              Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
              $100 for Best Technical Paper in Physical Sciences, Certificate, Dr. Paul X Callahan Technical Paper Awards    
              1st Award, Technical Paper    
        Andrew  Ma 1st Award, Botany Category Integration of Multiple Hormones and Light in Regulating Plant Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana by Two Antagonistic Transcription Factors (Botany) 11
              2nd Award, Technical Paper    
        Akshay J Maheshwari 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category BioBrick Studio: A Keystone for Efficient Streamlined Developent and Communication of Standard Biological Parts (Computers / Mathematics) 12
        Ritik  Malhotra Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Using an Ontology-Driven Semantically Annotated Microarray Repository with Thermal Graident Focusing Mass Spectronomy for Early Disease Detection (Engineering) 12
              $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis    
              1st Award, Engineering Category    
              Check of $50 - Best project in Computer Science, Infotech Outreach Award    
        Tejas  Navaratna 2nd Place Award - $200, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section Bactericidal Efficacy of Silver Nanoparticle Dispersions Prepared through Fungal Mediated and Chemical Reduction Methods (Chemistry) 12
              Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation    
              Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship    
        Raman  Nelakanti $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis Using Dark and Light Phases with Sulfur Deprivation to Optimize Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 12
              2nd Place Award - $75 Cash plus framed cert and subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
              Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center    
        Sandeep Venkatsai Peddada Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) Using Knot Theory to Identify the Knot Type of Circular DNA Molecules (Computers / Mathematics) 10
        Ashwin  Raman 2nd Award, Engineering Category Magnetically Coupled Oscillatory Resonant Induction System with Restricted Gradually-Evanescent Near-Field Patterns for Non-Radiative Mid-Range Efficient Wireless Electricity Transfer (Engineering) 11
              HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army    
              Honorable Mention, Technical Paper    
   Nicole DellaSantina  Julian  Huang Honorable Mention, Botany Category Effect of Wound-induced Resistance in Plants on Plant Systemic Acquired Resistance. (Botany) 11
              Honorable Mention: Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)    
   Charles Mosher  Noorsher  Ahmed Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Anti-Rolling Mechanism for Automobiles (Engineering) 9
              3rd Place Award - $100 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society    
              Honorable Mention Certificate, Product Safety Engineering Society    
   George Peck  Akshay  Nathan 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 Super-Encryption Standard for Large Data Using Chaotic Elementary Cellular Automata (Computers / Mathematics) 11
              $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis    
              1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
              Certificate of Achievement and instructions for Pewter Medallion (to come), Yale Science and Engineering Association    
              Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
   Joanne Quan  Keegan Victor Mendonca 2nd place, $30 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award Exploring Efficient Fertilizers that do not Cause Environmental Degradation (Engineering) 9
        Vishwaesh  Rajiv HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army A Piezoelectric, Faraday-based Approach to Harvesting Energy Through the Movement of Walking (Engineering) 9
   Roy Rocklin  Vincent  Li 2nd Award, Chemistry Category The Effect of Different Oxygen Scavenger With Different Concentration On the Production of Reduced Graphite Layers (Chemistry) 12
              Gr 9-12, 1st Place Award - $100 Cash, Magazine Subscrtiption, Certicate; ISEF Cert & medallion mailed from ASM Educational Foundation,, ASM International, A Society for Materials    
              Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship    
        Aditya  Majumdar HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army The Dangerous Threshold of Polyethylene and Plastic Based Products in an Ecosystem (Environmental Sciences) 11
        Kunal  Rathi 1st Award, Engineering Category Developing a Portable MRI (Engineering) 10
              Certificate of Merit , lapel pin, and chance to win $1000, National Society of Professional Engineers    
              HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army    
        Andrew  Wong 1st Award, Engineering Category Developing a Portable MRI (Engineering) 10
              Certificate of Merit , lapel pin, and chance to win $1000, National Society of Professional Engineers    
              HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army    
        Jared  Wong HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army The Dangerous Threshold of Polyethylene and Plastic Based Products in an Ecosystem (Environmental Sciences) 11
   David Taylor  Mihir Dilip Angal 1st Award, Physics Category Effectiveness of Pipes Laid in Asphalt Roads as a Mean of Gathering Heat From the Sun (Physics) 11
        Emily  Cheng 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 and Efficient Method of Hydrogen Production : Optimizing the Microbial Electrolysis Cell and Microbial Fuel Cell Coupled System (Environmental Sciences) 12
              1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category    
              1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
        Aakriti  Jain 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 and Efficient Method of Hydrogen Production : Optimizing the Microbial Electrolysis Cell and Microbial Fuel Cell Coupled System (Environmental Sciences) 12
              1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category    
              1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
        Alex  Tanner 1st Award, Physics Category Effectiveness of Pipes Laid in Asphalt Roads as a Mean of Gathering Heat From the Sun (Physics) 11
        Yi Wei  Zheng 1st Award, Physics Category Effectiveness of Pipes Laid in Asphalt Roads as a Mean of Gathering Heat From the Sun (Physics) 11