Lynbrook High School
Project Awards 2012
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
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Lynbrook High School | Amanda | Alonzo | Sarat | Calamur | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Mycoremediation of Household Hazardous Waste Through Pleurotus Ostreatus (Environmental Sciences) | 11 |
$100 Cash Award, Certificate, Schonert Award | |||||||
Arun | Chakravorty | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A Novel Carbon Dioxide Sequestor to Reduce C02 in Car Exhaust (Environmental Sciences) | 12 | |||
Michelle Lily | Chang | First Place: $100 Cash, Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | The Determination of the Effects of Panax Ginseng C.A. Meyer on the Nervous System of Caenorhabditis elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
Albert | Ge | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Determination of Pattern Behavior in Paenibacillus Vortex by the Analysis of Competitive Growth and the role of Chemotaxis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
Akruti Mahesh | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effects of Oil-Polluted Water on Multiple Generations of Pea Plants and Methods to Reverse the Effects (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
Somya | Khare | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Rhizofiltration Using Brassica Plants to Remove Heavy Metal Contamination from Water (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
Rani Shree | Mavram | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Biodegradable Plastics: Producing an Economical Starch-Based Plastic With High Tensile Strength, Water Resistance, and Biodegradability Through Gelatinization (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
Keegan Victor | Mendonca | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effects of IAA and IBA on Laccaria bicolor (Botany) | 11 | |||
Nidhi Ajay | Navaratna | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Exploring Cross-Modal Plasticity:Analying the Audio-Visual Recallability of Grapheme-Color Synesthetes (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
Santa Clara County Judging Committee High School Award of Excellence, $50 + Certificate, American Psychological Association | |||||||
Anusha | Sundar | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Biodegradable Plastics: Producing an Economical Starch-Based Plastic With High Tensile Strength, Water Resistance, and Biodegradability Through Gelatinization (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
Jack Ryan | Takahashi | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Study of the Adaptation of Pseudomonas Putida S12 to a Polystyrene-rich Environment: Random Chemical Mutagenesis and Bacterial Luciferase as a Non-Specific Bioreporter (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
Check for $200 and certificate, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in memorium - a Top Biological HS project | |||||||
Grade 11 or 12 team - $400 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | |||||||
Andrew Sean | Tsai | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Study of the Adaptation of Pseudomonas Putida S12 to a Polystyrene-rich Environment: Random Chemical Mutagenesis and Bacterial Luciferase as a Non-Specific Bioreporter (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
Check for $200 and certificate, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in memorium - a Top Biological HS project | |||||||
Grade 11 or 12 team - $400 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | |||||||
Kimberly Mary | Vaz | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Method for the Development of a Flexible Sensor in Robotic Fingertip Use (Engineering) | 11 | |||
Certificate of Achievement and instructions for Pewter Medallion (to come), Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
Evan | Xue | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | A Novel Approach to 3D Motion Tracking System. (Engineering) | 11 | |||
Kenneth | Iams | Quinn Campbell | Winters | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Novel Statistical Photonics Using Mathematical Models (Physics) | 11 | |
Kathleen | Loia | Vishwajit | Kode | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Developing Phage Therapy through Bacteriophage Mutagenesis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |
Charles | Mosher | Jiwan | Kang | 2nd place, $30 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | The Dimensions of the Truss on the Bridge's Weight Bearing Capacity (Engineering) | 9 | |
3rd Place HS Award - $50 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
George | Peck | Anish | Dhar | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | A 3-Dimensional Facial Recognition Algorithm Using Active Appearance Models and Structure from Motion (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
Nikhil | Unni | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | A 3-Dimensional Facial Recognition Algorithm Using Active Appearance Models and Structure from Motion (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
Joanne | Quan | Soumya Bhat | Kandukuri | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A Novel Method of Biodegrading Bisphenol-A in Polyethylene Terephthalate for Hydrolytic Stability in the North Pacific Gyre (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |
Zoe Alice | Pennington | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A Novel Method of Biodegrading Bisphenol-A in Polyethylene Terephthalate for Hydrolytic Stability in the North Pacific Gyre (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
Roy | Rocklin | Sneha Atul | Mohidekar | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | A Comparison of the Energy Content and Burning Speed of Different Oils as Possible Biofuels (Chemistry) | 9 | |
Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | The Effect of Eliminating Oxidizers from Various Substances to Form Flame Retardant Substances (Chemistry) | 9 | |||
Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
Hima Varsha | Rajana | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | A Comparison of the Energy Content and Burning Speed of Different Oils as Possible Biofuels (Chemistry) | 9 | |||