Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2010
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Bill | Dunbar | Laurel Anne | Kroo | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Efficient Low-Cost Wind Energy Using Passive Circulation Control (Engineering) | 12 |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place : Bronze Medallion, Army Satchel, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate Folder, United States Army | |||||||
| Connections computer accessories, Kitislazender sports deluxe sling, magnetic floating pen/holder, certificates, and certificate holders, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, medallion, Certificate of Achievement, and congratulatory letter, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| HP PhotoSmart C8180 All-In-One Printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Divyanshu Rohit | Murli | 2nd Award, Technical Paper | A Tensor Motivated Generalization of Strings to D-Branes (Technical Paper) | 11 | |||
| Eric | Ledgerwood | Audrey W. | Ho | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Exploring the Structures and Energetics of Non-Classical Fullerenes (Chemistry) | 11 | |
| Book and certificate, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi | |||||||
| Audrey W. | Ho | 2nd Award, Technical Paper | Exploring the Electronic Structures of Non-Classical Fullerenes (Technical Paper) | 11 | |||
| Angela | Merchant | Timothy Scott | Aiken | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Shortest Shutter Speed Required to Take a Clear Photo (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Josh | Paley | Andrew Bo | Liu | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Collaborative Filtering In Large Scale Recommender Systems (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Palo Alto High School | Suzanne B. | Antink | Lynnelle Lin | Ye | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Chomp On Graphs and Subsets (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 |
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| 1st Award, Technical Paper | |||||||
| Erik | Olah | Christine | Chang | Honorable Mention, Technical Paper | Finding Tag SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) (Technical Paper) | 9 | |
| Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Fred | Berghout | Karina | Goot | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Mpemba Effect (Physics) | 8 |
| Addie Mary | McNamara | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | What is the Effect of an Authoritative Figure on Different Age Groups? (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Noel | Berghout | Kavya | Ramakrishnan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Using Gears to Climb Stairs (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Pheobe | So | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Spacing on CDS and DVDS (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Hayley | Dupuy | Aidan Miles | Drake | 2nd place student - Middle School - $50 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | The Effects of Increasing Pressure in Compressed Air Rockets (Physics) | 6 | |
| Maya Lee | Kandell | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Amazing Factors of the Human Eye and Heart, and How They Can be Affected by Colored Lights (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Gillian | Meeks | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Amazing Factors of the Human Eye and Heart, and How They Can be Affected by Colored Lights (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Maya Danielle | Miklos | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Wake Up and Smell the ...Color? (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Santa Clara County Judging Committee Middle School First Place Award of $25 and Certificate of Award from National APA, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Ann | Lorey | Erina | Kamiya | First Place MS--$100 Cash plus cert, RAE Systems | Burning Elements and Comparing Wavelength (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Divya | Saini | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Oxygen Content in Different Environments (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Kevin | Lynch | Iris Marie | Chin | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | How Does the Amount of Baking Soda Affect the Volume of Sugar Cookies? (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| Stacey | Soong | Gloria | Pan | Gr 6- $100 & scholarship to Advanced Student Research Program, Robert Brownlee - Schmahl Science Award | Can the Bacteria E.Coli Survive in Outer Space Conditions (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |
| Terman Middle School | Beth | Carlson | Emily Lois | Aiken | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Comfort vs. Speed: Designing the Ideal Sail (Physics) | 7 |
| Connections computer accessories, Kitislazender sports deluxe sling, magnetic floating pen/holder, certificates, and certificate holders, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Honorable mention- certificate plus voucher for course materials and attendance at a safe boating course., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Grant | Fong | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Efficacy of Spices In Killing Bacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, signed by Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Jim | Cox | Natasha Maier | Batista | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Gender Memory Game (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |
| Kathleen | DeCoste | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Gender Memory Game (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Tamara | Juarez | Drew Lawrence | Bent | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Project - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Exploring Rule Variations in Conway's Game of Life: Programming for the Computer and iPhone Platforms (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| $100 Cash Award to Grades 7-8 plus cert, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Isabel Nadine | Goronzy | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Fueling the Immune System (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Sabrina | Lui | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | From Wind to Water (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $100 each, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| HP35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Emily Siming | Wang | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effective Water Retention Medium for Living Roof Soil (Botany) | 8 | |||
| Trevor S. | Wang | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effective Water Retention Medium for Living Roof Soil (Botany) | 7 | |||
| Annie | Yount | Brian Wesley | Hill | 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash plus framed cert and subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Which Metals are More Magnetic? (Physics) | 6 | |