Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2010

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Monta Vista High School  Pamela Chow  Angela  Zhang Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Identification of a Novel Therapeutic Target and Its Pathway for Tobacco Promotion of Lung Cancer (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 10
              1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category    
              Certificate of Achievement, signed by Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service Award    
   Renee Fallon  Aarthi  Ravi Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Traffic Light Dilemma Warning Using Fuzzy Object Recognition Algorithm (Engineering) 10
              1st Place Award - $250 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society    
              2nd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert, Product Safety Engineering Society    
              3rd Place HS Award - $25 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers    
              Barnes&Noble gift cards:Gold medal, Certificate,SWE Brochure-What in the world will they think of next?, Society of Women Engineers    
        Shruthi  Ravi Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Traffic Light Dilemma Warning Using Fuzzy Object Recognition Algorithm (Engineering) 10
              1st Place Award - $250 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society    
              2nd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert, Product Safety Engineering Society    
              3rd Place HS Award - $25 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers    
              Barnes&Noble gift cards:Gold medal, Certificate,SWE Brochure-What in the world will they think of next?, Society of Women Engineers    
   Kavita Gupta  Evaline Shin-Tin Tsai 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Hydrocarbons (Environmental Sciences) 11
              Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center    
              First Place HS- $150 Cash plus cert, RAE Systems    
              Gr 9-12, 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash, Magazine subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials    
   Bruce Kawanami  Kevin  Adinata 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering ORCS (One-Button Remote Control System) (Engineering) 12
              Honorable Mention, Engineering Category    
        Tushar  Alladi 1st Award, Engineering Category T.I.M. - Touchless Interface Mouse (Engineering) 12
        Anindya  Basu 1st Award, Engineering Category Transitional Shelters in Post Disaster Situations (Engineering) 11
              2nd Place HS Award - $50 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers    
              Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
        Tarun  Chaudhry Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, medallion, Certificate of Achievement, and congratulatory letter, United States Navy and Marine Corps Enhancing Communication - Novel Cell Phone Capabilities for Persons with Disabilities (Engineering) 12
        Saurabh  Davala 2nd Award, Engineering Category Stirling Silver: A Renewable Energy Re-Capture System Add On for an Automotive Application (Engineering) 11
        Robert Takumi Frederick 3rd Place Award - $25 Cash plus framed cert, Product Safety Engineering Society Vigilo Angelus: Wireless Accelerometer Based Vital Sign Tracker for Sleeping Infants (Engineering) 12
        Siddharth Manoj Gandhi HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army Soccer Footwear (Engineering) 12
        Reubin  George 2nd Award, Physics Category Focusing Sound Using Non-Linear Acoustics (Physics) 12
              1st Place : Bronze Medallion, Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate Folder, United States Army    
              Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta    
              Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship    
              Honorable Mention, Technical Paper    
        Aamoy  Gupta 2nd Award, Engineering Category Stirling Silver: A Renewable Energy Re-Capture System Add On for an Automotive Application (Engineering) 11
        Dewal  Gupta 1st Award, Engineering Category Transitional Shelters in Post Disaster Situations (Engineering) 11
              2nd Place HS Award - $50 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers    
              Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
        Jessica Wenshan Hsu 1st place student- High School - $100 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter Photoluminescence of Europium-Catalyzed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Chemistry) 12
              HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army    
              Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
              Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship    
              1st Award, Technical Paper    
        Andrew  Hui 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering Robo Chair: The Autonomous Personal Transporter (Engineering) 12
        Kevin  Jiang 2nd Award, Technical Paper Psp2,6ST Sialyltransferase for the Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Cancer Vaccines and Related Antigens (Technical Paper) 11
        Jason  Jung HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army Soccer Footwear (Engineering) 11
        Parag  Kikla 1st Award, Engineering Category T.I.M. - Touchless Interface Mouse (Engineering) 12
        Badri Narayanan Krishnan 2nd Award, Engineering Category Stirling Silver: A Renewable Energy Re-Capture System Add On for an Automotive Application (Engineering) 11
        Arun Raj Kuchibhotla 1st Award, Engineering Category T.I.M. - Touchless Interface Mouse (Engineering) 12
        Akhil  Raju Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Digital Electric Guitar: Utilizing Analog to Digital Conversions and a Signal Processing System to Increase Tonal Range (Engineering) 12
        Madula  Ramabathiran 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering ORCS (One-Button Remote Control System) (Engineering) 12
              Honorable Mention, Engineering Category    
        Keshav  Saharia Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta Traffic Optimization System (Computers / Mathematics) 12
              Check of $50 - Best project in Computer Science, Infotech Outreach Award    
        Vyas  Savanur Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Digital Electric Guitar: Utilizing Analog to Digital Conversions and a Signal Processing System to Increase Tonal Range (Engineering) 12
        Jeet  Shah 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering Robo Chair: The Autonomous Personal Transporter (Engineering) 12
        Sameer  Sondhi HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army Soccer Footwear (Engineering) 11
   Tom Zimmerman  Matthew Daniel Zimmerman 1st place, $50 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award The Effects of Fipronil on Copepod Mobility (Environmental Sciences) 9