Bellarmine College Preparatory

Project Awards 2014

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Bellarmine College Preparatory	Youssef	Ismail (SSW Mentor)	Vikram	Vasan	2nd Award, Engineering Category	A novel approach for improving depth perception in those impaired with stereopsis (Engineering)	10
					IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
	Ibtisam	Khalaf (SSW mentor)	Vinay	Ayyappan	1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	A Novel Strategy to Mitigate Bacterial Quorum Sensing via Inhibition of Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) through Boron Encapsulation by Polyvinyl Alcohol (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	10
	Brad	Lindemann	Rahul Ram	Mohan	5th Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	A Novel Method to detect and track the progression of Parkinson's disease using smartphone data (Computers / Mathematics)	9
					1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category
					Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award
	Debjani	Roy	Shreyan	Jain	GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $25 per student and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)	A Computational Investigation of Iridium Hydride and Other Metastable Metal Hydrides for Optimizing Hydrogen Storage in a Fuel Cell (Chemistry)	10
					Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
			Christopher Alan	Powers	1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category	Investigating Vegetation as a Natural Barrier to Reduce Tsunami Power (Earth / Space Sciences)	11
					1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers
			Hersh Jasmine	Sanghvi	2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	Modeling Novel Sensory Uses of Graphene Nanopores to Detect Urinary Nucleoside Biomarkers 1-Methyladenosine, Cytidine, 8-Hydroxyguanosine (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	11
			Omkar	Savant	GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $25 per student and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)	A Computational Investigation of Iridium Hydride and Other Metastable Metal Hydrides for Optimizing Hydrogen Storage in a Fuel Cell (Chemistry)	11
					Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
			Anin	Sayana	2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category	The Unfolded Protein Response in Cancer Resistance: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	10
			Akhil	Surapaneni	2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	Modeling Novel Sensory Uses of Graphene Nanopores to Detect Urinary Nucleoside Biomarkers 1-Methyladenosine, Cytidine, 8-Hydroxyguanosine (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	12
			Siddharth	Venkatraman	Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center	Theoretical Design to Beam Helium-3 Energy from the Moon (Engineering)	10
	Rod	Wong	Milan	Gambhir	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	A Wearable Ultrasonic Device for the Early Detection of Tumor Recurrence (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	10
					High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
					1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category
					First Place: $500 American Express Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Agilent Technologies
			Pravin	Ravishanker	1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category	Genetics or Gender: Assessing the impact of APOE-e4 and Gender in age-specific cognitive and structural rates of decline in Alzheimer's disease (Computers / Mathematics)	9