Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Tiara | Bhatacharya | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Effect of Mushroom Cellobioses on the Degradation Rate of PNP Glucopyranoside in Coordination with their Potentials as a Biofuel (Environmental Sciences) | 11 |
| Joyce | Huang | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Chemosensitization on the Efficacy of Antifungal Agents (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Anika Apsara | Jain | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Insulin and Thyroxine on the Greater Growth of a Wisconsin FastPlant's root, leaf, and overall growth (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Neymika | Jain | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Chemosensitization on the Efficacy of Antifungal Agents (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Anuva | Mittal | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Insulin and Thyroxine on the Greater Growth of a Wisconsin FastPlant's root, leaf, and overall growth (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Sriram | Somasundaram | 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 | Design and Evaluation of Chitosan-NP Ocular Drug Delivery System for targeted delivery of Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride in bacterial conjunctivitis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| $ 1000 to the winning student or team in Bio Science + Glass award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Suhasini | Chandra (Sponsor) | Rishabh | Chandra | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Improving the Efficiency of a Bio-Battery as a Biofuel Energy Source (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW Mentor) | Rishab | Gargeya | 3rd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A software based approach for automated pathology diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy in the human retina (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Nikash | Shankar | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Promising Target For Alzheimer's Disease: Effects of Canonical and Non-Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathways On beta-Catenin and Mitochondrial Dynamics (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
| Susan | King | Ankita | Pannu | 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Finding comfort in numbers: Using natural language processing and text mining to improve the effectiveness of online cancer support groups (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Vikas Chandra | Bhetanabhotla | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Identification of Satellite Galaxies around Milky Way Galactic Analogs using Machine Learning Algorithms (Physics) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Steven | Cao | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Aluminum Sulfate on Orthophosphate Levels in Water and Its Viability as a Solution to Northern Mexican Gulf Hypoxia (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| Zareen | Choudhury | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | The Evolving Mixture of Barium Isotopes in Milky Way Halo Stars (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Vamsi | Gadiraju | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Improving the Wettability Of Vertically Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Supercapacitors Via Substrate Patterning (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 1st Place: $100, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Anika | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Two-Step Approach Towards Ending Cancer Stem Cell Tumorigenesis: Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery of Biotin and Hyaluronic Acid-Taxoid Conjugates (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Rishabh | Jain | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | A Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired by Means of Robust and Streamlined Object Recognition (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Andrew Cheng | Jin | 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 | Rational Discovery and Optimization of Synergistic Chemotherapy Combinations: A Novel Framework Integrating Gene Perturbation Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| $ 1000 to the winning student or team in Physical Science + Glass award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Vineet Sai | Kosaraju | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | A Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired by Means of Robust and Streamlined Object Recognition (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Rohith C | Kuditipudi | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Separating Mirror Molecules: Computational Evaluation and Novel Framework for HPLC Method Development (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | |||||||
| David | Lin | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Identifying Molecular Signatures for Lung Adenocarcinoma Prognosis and Treatment (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| iPad Mini, Plaque, and Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | |||||||
| Nitya | Mani | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Characterizing the N-Divison Points of Genus 0 Curves Through Ruler-Compass Constructions (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Varun | Mohan | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Lattice Boltzmann Method Based Computational Model for Optimizing Anode Morphologies to Design Efficient Li-ion Batteries (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Neil | Movva | 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Rapid Tissue Repair: Using Enzymatic Hydrogels and Collagen Matrices to Cover & Heal Epithelial Wounds (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Kshithija | Mulam | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on C. Elegans After the Consumption of E. Coli Bacteria Infected By Tributyltin Oxide (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Efrey Alex | Noten | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Examining the effect of a polymer-supported palladium catalyst on the yield of a Negishi-coupled diaryl compound (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Alayna | Richmond | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on C. Elegans After the Consumption of E. Coli Bacteria Infected By Tributyltin Oxide (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Venkat N. | Sankar | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Crystal Ball for Drug Efficacy: Predicting Drug Resistance with HIV Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Manan Ajay | Shah | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | A Study of the Effect of Solar Flares on the Magnetosphere of the Sun and the Propagation of Pressure Waves (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Vedant | Thyagaraj | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Gene Expression Profiling As a Tool For Early Cancer Detection (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Kailas N. | Vodrahalli | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Transmission of Solar Energy through Optical Waveguides: Modeling and Material Studies. (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Steven Michael | Wang | 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 | Rational Discovery and Optimization of Synergistic Chemotherapy Combinations: A Novel Framework Integrating Gene Perturbation Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| $ 1000 to the winning student or team in Physical Science + Glass award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Leo | Yu | 2nd Award, Physics Category | I3 and I5 Ion Diffusion Through 186-02 Film Modeled Through Monte Carlo Simulation (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Jeff | Sutton | Vivek | Sriram | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Agent-Based Modeling to Simulate the Transfer of Zoonotic Pathogens (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||