Los Altos High School

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Altos High School	Karen	Davis	Justin Vincent	Yu	Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary	Optimizing Machine Learning Based Ocean Oil Spill Detection using Genetic Algorithm Techniques (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Darren	Dressen	Alana Marthe Phan	Beyer	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Assessing the accuracy of WordtoVec Assisted Translations of Uncommon Languages (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Nicolas Arthur	Chan	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Evaluating and Developing Algorithms for Computer Music Composition (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Jordan Davis	Gorospe	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Green tea catechins inhibitory effects on tumorigenisis (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Anisha	Palasamudrum	1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley	Testing Vitamin E Isomers to downregulate VEGF Receptors and inhibit angiogenesis. (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Varvara Alexeevna	Shvareva	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Upregulating the levels of the microtubule severing protein spastin in neuroblastomas to model axonal regeneration (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
	Martina	Steiner	Allison	Yih	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	A computer simulation to investigate the change of allele frequencies of Sickle Cell Disease based on biogeography (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award