East Side Union High School District
Project Awards 2010
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Valley High School | Heidi | Black | Erica Jenae | Martinez | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | Spots on My Apples (Botany) | 12 |
| 1st place - $100 cash award plus cert, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Barjinder | Sabherwal | Stacey | Huang | Grand Prize Alternate - East Side Union High School District - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Green Oil (Botany) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Botany Category | |||||||
| Individual: $30 cash and a book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Independence High School | Stuart | Briber | Michelle Nguyen | Ngo | 1st place $50 and a certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Vroom Vroom Oil (Physics) | 11 |
| Linh | Tran-Phuong | 1st place $50 and a certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Vroom Vroom Oil (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Latino College Preparatory Academy | Cynthia | Wambsgans | Atalia | Palacios | 2nd Place Certificate, Santa Clara County Integrated Waste Management Program | Red Wigglers: Our Friends for Recycling (Environmental Sciences) | 11 |
| Ana | Sanchez | 2nd Place Certificate, Santa Clara County Integrated Waste Management Program | Red Wigglers: Our Friends for Recycling (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Noemi | Trejo | 2nd Place Certificate, Santa Clara County Integrated Waste Management Program | Red Wigglers: Our Friends for Recycling (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Oak Grove High School | John | Allen | Jimmy | Dao | Certificate of Merit , lapel pin, and chance to win $1000, National Society of Professional Engineers | Enhanced Radio Imaging Device (Engineering) | 11 |
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Alex | Hang | Grand Prize Alternate - East Side Union High School District - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | WiTricity (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| HM Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
| Vivien | MacNguyen | Grand Prize - Best of East Side Union High School District - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Implications of Phytoremediation: Natural and Induced Heavy-metal Hyperaccumulation by Brassica Rapa (Botany) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Botany Category | |||||||
| Duy | Nguyen | Grand Prize Alternate - East Side Union High School District - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | WiTricity (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| HM Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
| Kevin Tuan | Nguyen | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Toroid Blast! (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Emily | To | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | YBCO: Solid State Synthesis (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $100 each, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Award-Magzine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials | |||||||
| Justin | To | Grand Prize - Best of East Side Union High School District - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Piece de resistance: The Synthesis of Complex Dimeric Pyrrole-Imidazole Alkaloid Natural Product Derivatives and a Mechanistic Analysis of their Efficacy in Inhibiting Bacterial Resistance (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| $100 Cash Award, certificate, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $500, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Scholarship to attend Electronic Materials Symposium on 4/16/10, EMS Scholarship | |||||||
| Jeannie | Tran | Grand Prize - Best of East Side Union High School District - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Winning With Wolbachia (Zoology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Zoology Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Van | Tran | Grand Prize - Best of East Side Union High School District - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Winning With Wolbachia (Zoology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Zoology Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Katerina | Trinh | Grand Prize - Best of East Side Union High School District - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Winning With Wolbachia (Zoology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Zoology Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Melanie | Navarro | Annie Thuy | Chung | Certificate of Achievement and instructions for Pewter Medallion (to come), Yale Science and Engineering Association | Bigger is Better, or Not? (Physics) | 11 | |
| Santa Teresa High School | Debra | Dimas | Hellen N | Ly | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Slow Down Microwave (Physics) | 12 |
| $75 Cash Award plus Certificate and holder, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Phillip | Ngyuyen | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | Energy Efficiency of Motors (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Eric | Oh | HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | Energy Efficiency of Motors (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Miranda Adele Ruth | Swineford | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Bullet Penetration Strength: How Safe Are You? (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and instructions for Pewter Medallion (to come), Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| HM :Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Davis | Vo | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Slow Down Microwave (Physics) | 12 | |||
| $75 Cash Award plus Certificate and holder, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Silver Creek High School | Narquiz | Cervantes | Brian T. | Do | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Engineering A FerroFluid-Based Transformer to Minimize hysteresis Loss (Engineering) | 10 |
| HP PhotoSmart C8180 All-In-One Printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Rachel K | Do | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | The Effect of Heavy Metal Cations and Metal-Chelate Complexes on Catalase Activity (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | |||||||
| 2nd place, $30 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Gina | Huynh | Honorable Mention HS - cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Train Electromagnetic vs Electrodynamic Suspension (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Naushaba Akhtar | Khan | 1st Award, Technical Paper | The Effect of Varying Magnetic Field Strengths on the Viscosity of Magneto-Rheological Fluids (Technical Paper) | 10 | |||