Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2015

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Monta Vista High School  Pamela Chow  Julia  Cho Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category Microfabricated hydrogel-based vascular networks for the metastasis study of circulating tumor cells (RRI Biological Sciences) 11
              Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology    
   Scott DeRuiter  Ajay  Jain Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Distributed Robotic Pursuit and Evasion: Navigation and State Estimation (RRI Physical Sciences) 11
              Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
              One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education    
        Anurag  Singh High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene (Engineering) 10
              2nd Award, Engineering Category    
              Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)    
        Kaushik  Tandon High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene (Engineering) 10
              2nd Award, Engineering Category    
              Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)    
   Renee Fallon  Maalini Radha Bommakanti Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 11
        Ankita  Chatterjee 2nd Award, Engineering Category A Low-Cost Novel Construction of a Stacked E. coli-Based Fuel Cell System (Engineering) 10
        Jonathan F Fung $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Physical Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize Surface Specific Rationally Self-Assembling Au-Fe Oxide Nanoparticles: A Potential Multi-Modal Imaging Agent Platform for Early Tumor Diagnosis (RRI Physical Sciences) 11
              High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize    
              Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Sciences Category    
              GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $70, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)    
        Zunera  Ghalib Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category The Effects of Curcumin On Rotenone-induced Drosophila Models of Parkinson's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 10
        Joshua  John 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category What is the effect of dollar bill value on the amount of germs found present on the bill? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 9
        Gayathri A Kalla Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 11
        Anish G Krishnan 1st Award, Engineering Category A Non-invasive Low-Cost Electronic Nose Breath Analyzer To Detect the Deadliest Cancer. (Engineering) 10
        Christina C Lau 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category The Correlation Between the Time Middle and High School Students Spend on Chores and Their Grade Point Average scores (Behavioral / Social) 9
        Shriya Reddy Perati Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category The Effect of Melatonin on Antibiotic Resistance (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 10
        Yana  Petri 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category Modeling CMIP5 Projected Climate Change Impacts on Global Terrestrial Mammalian Species-Range Shifts Under RCP Emission Scenarios (Earth / Space Sciences) 12
              $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd.    
              Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration    
        Manav Jitesh Shah Honorable Mention, Ecology Category The Effect of Freshwater Diatoms and Orthosilicate during Nutrient Over-Fertilization in Harmful Algal Blooms to control the Growth Rate of Dinoflagellate Peridinium (Ecology) 9
              Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society    
        Priscilla  Siow Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists E.Coli Filtration using Plant Xylem from the Pseudotsuga menziesii (Botany) 9
        Pranav  Srinivas 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category Integrative Network Analysis of Epigenetic and Genomic Data for Colorectal Cancer (Bioinformatics) 11
        Rishi Jatin Upadhyay 2nd Award, Ecology Category Effect of environmental pollutants on Salmon chromatophores and their use as a biosensor (Ecology) 9
        Gina  Yang 1st Award, Zoology Category Effects of Agricultural Adjuvant on the Olfactory Associative Learning and Memory of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) (Zoology) 9
   Debbie Frazier  Nikhil  Cheerla GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Linking Alternative Splicing to Human Brain Development and Synaptic Plasticity (Bioinformatics) 10
        Advith  Gopinath $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award Using Machine Learning to Analyze Gait to Assist in the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease (Bioinformatics) 9
   Andrew Goldenkranz  Anika Asawa Ramachandran $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award The Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Levels in Freshwater Using Chlorella vulgaris and Calcium Oxide (Ecology) 9
              book for student and another for her science teacher, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi    
   David Greenstein  Ganesh  Valliappan Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Smart Home Safety System (Engineering) 10
   Kathleen McCarty  Nathan  Wong 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category The correlation between different music aspects and electrodermal activity (Behavioral / Social) 10
              Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association    
   Ted Shinta  Anirudh  Balasubramaniam Honorable Mention, Engineering Category A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. (Engineering) 10
        Nilay Sanjay Sawant Honorable Mention, Engineering Category A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. (Engineering) 10