Challenger - Sunnyvale

Project Awards 2014

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Challenger - Sunnyvale Vladimir Bacvanski (PSP) Marc Gong Bacvanski 3rd Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter The Effect of the Number of Computers on Computation Time (Computers / Mathematics) 7
            2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
            Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
  Youssef Ismail (SSW Mentor) Karthik  Kalyanasundaram Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Charging Electric Vehicles On The Go (Engineering) 7
  Pratibha Jain (PSP) Rishabh  Jain 1st Award, Chemistry Category Starch Your Engines - The Effect of the Type of Starch on Potential Ethanol Yield (Chemistry) 8
  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Rithvik Ravi Chuppala Honorable Mention, Engineering Category Comparing an all-carbon based supercapacitor with various energy storage devices (Engineering) 7
      Nikita  Goyal 2nd Award, Physics Category Effect of Spectral Window Length on the Accuracy of Decoding Music Notes (Physics) 8
      Ananya  Karthik 1st Award, Chemistry Category A Greener Cleaner: Investigating a Potential Biosorbent for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solutions. (Chemistry) 7
            $50, book, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi    
      Sathvik  Koneru Honorable Mention, Physics Category Modeling the tension placed on the quadriceps at different squatting angles (Physics) 8
            Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
      Zade  Lobo Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category Changing Wireless Intensity (Computers / Mathematics) 7
      Avni Pravin Madhani 2nd Place Award - $350 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section Lye or Lime? Examining the Effect of Sodium Hydroxide and Calcium Hydroxide on the Pretreatment of Corn Husks in Ethanol Production (Chemistry) 8
      Karthik  Ramachandran Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Tag Your Meds: Reduce Accidental Drug Overdose Using NFC Tags (Computers / Mathematics) 8
            1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
      Ruhi  Sayana Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category Isolating MHC Class II+ Dendritic Cells: A Comparative study of DC Populations in Murine Spleen and Skin with Flow Cytometry (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 7
      Shivam  Singhal Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category Green Alternatives: Exploring a Method for the Creation of Next Generation Biofuel by the Bioconversion of Biomass Feedstocks (Environmental Sciences) 7
            1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
            3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter